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If you were a Luddite horse farmer or yoke maker you might hate diesel engines lol.

• db48x 2y ago
  No, 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 ago
      I 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.