New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World

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15. Luddites

Early 19th century workers who didn't like the industrial revolution.

Kinda like the horse and buggy makers smashing up the car factories.

Funny that socialists would defend them, without the industrial revolution, no capitalism, and since no capitalism, no socialism to critique them. We'd all be sewing our own undies, or our moms would be, since there would probably be no rights movements of any kind.

(mercantilism was the dominate economic force before the industrial revolution, capitalism is something that is an outgrowth of the industrial revolution. Capitalism has not existed forever)



But Broadly and from the dictionary: people who don't like technological change.

As for my first post, I find it rather petty to go back and critique an unfinished work.

I commented on something that stuck out like a sore thumb. That being, the comparison to betamax. Another poster informed me of the full contents of the article, at which point I decided I had no interest in reading it.

I tend not to read things like posts about conspiracy theories, Luddite screeds and right wing rants. It's a waste of time, which has been proven time and time again. (of course, if I want a laugh, I read them)