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@papageier @reading_recluse Using a tool to neatly fold a thread upon itself millions of times to produce a sheet of cloth is not the same thing as rolling weighed dice to randomly generate what looks like writing. You are comparing apples to dog shit. I'm pretty sure the people who protested textile factories were protesting the horrible working conditions, not loss of skilled labor jobs. There was some resentment from skilled laborers for less skilled laborers who could use more advanced tools to produce more textile faster & at a higher quality, but it was overwhelmingly not that & these two groups were on the same side of the protests. I can't find much about France¹, but this is how it was in the USA & England. In English, people who refuse to adopt new tools to improve their work while at the same time making it easier & prefer to instead never learn or even worsen are called Luddites.