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Grew up around some farm trucks that were electronic free diesels. My grandfather called them "luddite diesels". Later in life I realized the humor, considering
by spacecadet 2y ago
Grew up around some farm trucks that were electronic free diesels. My grandfather called them "luddite diesels". Later in life I realized the humor, considering that a diesel engine is a technology, and that luddites likely prefer horses...
- db48x 2y agoNo, the technologies that the Luddites disliked were very specific and regional. They only cared about machines that threatened their own personal jobs, not anyone else’s job.
- genewitch 2y agoOkay, loomer.
- spacecadet 2y ago:D
- spacecadet 2y agoIf you were a Luddite horse farmer or yoke maker you might hate diesel engines lol.
- db48x 2y agoNo, because those specialists never quite existed. That is, every farmer who owned horses would let them breed and then sell most of the foals every year. Similarly, any farmer could carve a yoke whenever they needed one; it wasn’t skilled labor that required years of training the way lacemaking or weaving was.
- spacecadet 2y ago...it's just some fun conversation.
- genewitch 2y agoI think the Amish are closer to what people envision when they hear the word "Luddite", but luddite these days means anyone who is wary of or eschews technology. It was specific to the textile workers, originally, destroying machines.