I’ve always had a soft spot for the Luddites and I think history has been very unfair in painting them as self-serving, selfish men determined to stop the march of progress and prosperity.
The reality is that they were highly skilled people faced with ruin who understood that it would be the chief executive class who would gain most from a move to lower-quality products produced using low-skill labour and new machinery. I particularly like the fact that, just like Robin Hood, the leader, Ned Ludd, may never have existed and was said to have lived in Sherwood Forest.
Of course, […]
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