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| ▲ | pchangr 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Correct, and I am saying the Luddites were a group of people that suffered mass unemployment following a technological change. Specifically, the luddites were a group of 19th century textile workers that were left out of work due to the introduction of automated machinery in the textile industry. In other words, they are a perfect example of what GP claims hasn’t happened. | | |
| ▲ | loeg 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | A small group is not "mass unemployment" -- that's the point. > In a British textile industry that employed a million people, the [Luddite] movement’s numbers never rose above a couple of thousand. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rage-against-the-machine | | |
| ▲ | coldtea 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | The "never rose above a couple of thousand" small group refers to the number of activist Luddites. It doesn't refer to the people working in the textile industry in general - which was a big group, and which was heavily affected. |
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