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How many weavers were put out of work by textile automation in the 18th century? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
by Refreeze5224 1y ago
How many weavers were put out of work by textile automation in the 18th century?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
- dijit 1y agoall of them, which not a brilliant argument when you discover where, who and how the majority of our clothes are made today to be fair. I’ll upvote you though because I hadn’t read the whole backstory of the luddites before.
- Refreeze5224 1y agoI think you missed my point. I was trying to point how similar the situation programmers face with AI is to the Luddites. People think of them as anti-technology, but they clearly weren't. HN feels a lot like a forum for weavers discussing the hot new automatic weavers and how excited they are for them, without realizing the true goal and scope.