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Okay, so what's your actual criticism? You realize the vast majority of textiles are produced by machinery, right? The luddites lost, and sank into irrelevance.
by copsarebastards 11y ago
Okay, so what's your actual criticism? You realize the vast majority of textiles are produced by machinery, right? The luddites lost, and sank into irrelevance.
- gggmaster 11y agoIf they had had basic income, maybe they would not have become Luddites?
- copsarebastards 11y agoMaybe, but I don't know why the original author should be obligate to demostrate knowledge about that in order to talk intelligently about basic income. Remember, I'm responding to: > "New rule: if you want to write about how mechanisation and automation will affect the people, you need to - at absolute minimum - have read the entirety of the Wikipedia article about The Industrial Revolution, and know where the term Luddite comes from." Luddism is certainly interesting, but it's relatively small in terms of its effects and one can certainly talk about basic income without talking about luddism.