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I wish I could help you. Citation needed regarding what? That Luddites knew a craft? I thought this was known and/or accepted. The revolt was largely against
by dotcoma 3y ago
I wish I could help you.
Citation needed regarding what?
That Luddites knew a craft? I thought this was known and/or accepted. The revolt was largely against new machines that delivered lower quality products at a much lower cost, with workers being paid a fraction of what they were used to.
Or regarding that most gig economy workers don’t have qualifications? I thought this, too, was accepted. Not many are SWEs earning 1k a day or more. Most deliver you pizza or stand in line so you can have the newest iPhone on day-1. There’s even a website called TaskRabbit. It doesn’t sound like gigs offered there are very qualified.
- hef19898 3y agoYou seem to live in quite a bubble. Working in the gig economy is more about a lack of options than a lack of qualification. And the Luddite movemebr was as much about working condition as it was about pay, e.g. having children do maintenance on running machinery being maimed and crippled. Luddites were no backward people, they wanted a livelihood, one the lost during the industrial revolution. Maybe that is too hard to research and understand, when you are so qualified and busy making 1k per day as a software whatever.
- dotcoma 3y agoIf you are referring to me, I am not a software engineer and I make nowhere close to 1k a day. Nor do I think Luddites were backward people — not at all. On the contrary, I think that, mutatis mutandis, we could learn quite a bit from their struggle.