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Where do you get that the Luddites' only complaint was having something to do? “How are those men, thus thrown out of employ to provide for their families?” as
by guelo 13y ago
Where do you get that the Luddites' only complaint was having something to do?
“How are those men, thus thrown out of employ to provide for their families?” asked the petitioners.
- bcoates 13y agoThey answer their own question: with a retraining process that will leave their children behind as untrained bums. They semi-accurately predict a future where employment is sufficiently fluid that nobody is securely enough situated at a job that they can train their children into it.