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The past needed more serfs than readers until the Industrial Revolution, but once we got those going, all that machinery required skilled people to operate.
by int_19h 1y ago
The past needed more serfs than readers until the Industrial Revolution, but once we got those going, all that machinery required skilled people to operate.
- p1esk 1y agoDid making things without machinery require fewer skilled people?
- int_19h 1y agoDepends on what you're making. Pre-industrial society was mostly concerned with growing food to feed itself. Things like say blacksmithing or advanced weaving certainly did require skilled professionals, but they were proportionally a tiny minority of a society consisting mostly of farmers.