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> 1. It will take away jobs from creatives "In the 17th century nearly all Europe experienced revolts of the workpeople against the ribbonloom, a machine for w
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> 1. It will take away jobs from creatives
"In the 17th century nearly all Europe experienced revolts of the workpeople against the ribbonloom, a machine for weaving ribbons and trimmings, called in Germany Bandmühle,
Schnurmühle, and Mühlenstuhl. These machines were invented in Germany. Abbé Lancellotti, in
a work that appeared in Venice in 1636, but which was written in 1579, says as follows:
Anthony Müller of Danzig saw about 50 years ago in that town, a very ingenious
machine, which weaves 4 to 6 pieces at once. But the Mayor being apprehensive
that this invention might throw a large number of workmen on the streets, caused
the inventor to be secretly strangled or drowned"
-- "Section 5: The Strife Between Workman and Machine", Das Kapital