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One of the major complaints of the luddites were quality too. The (quite literal) orphan crushing machines made a lot of cloth. So much new uses for cloth were created, because no one needed so much cloth before
But it was cheap cloth that wore down much faster. It was also the birth of consumerism
There's a lot of aspects to the struggle of the luddites that very much apply to modern issues, this aspect has been on my mind in relation to AI lately... The displaced workers aren't the only victims, society gets worse for everyone at the altar of profits