Just Post

640 readers

105 users here now

Just post something 💛

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

714

Nope. No. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

252 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I would encourage you to read up on who the Luddites really were. In short, textile workers who were being forced into underpaid and very dangerous work making cheap shit. They broke some machines and wrote some threatening letters to try and achieve a ban on child labour and a minimum wage. Then the government responded with executions and penal transportation.

permalink
fedilink
source
parent