How many weavers were put out of work by textile automation in the 18th century?

all of them, which not a brilliant argument when you discover where, who and how the majority of our clothes are made today to be fair.

I’ll upvote you though because I hadn’t read the whole backstory of the luddites before.

	▲	Refreeze5224 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think you missed my point. I was trying to point how similar the situation programmers face with AI is to the Luddites. People think of them as anti-technology, but they clearly weren't. HN feels a lot like a forum for weavers discussing the hot new automatic weavers and how excited they are for them, without realizing the true goal and scope.