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2026-07-03 15:20 UTC
a history of the Luddite movement—a group of artisans and textile workers who resisted the adoption of machines during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England and whose resistance to being displaced from their work was met with violence by the British monarchy.
That’s a much better explanation of the Luddite movement than I was expecting.
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@stoly@lemmy.world 2026-07-03 15:29
People always assume that it is an anti-technology movement when it’s really an income-protection movement.