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by ares623 57 days ago
I agree. Luddites need to reclaim the name. Their demands were reasonable.
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Why not live like the luddites won? Why not move to a cabin in the middle of the forest and only live with the level of technology they wanted to stay at under the guise of "protecting skilled labour" (all technology since 1785 merely being a lazy shortcut).