That is also what happened to the luddites. Adopt technology or the police will arrest you with loaded guns and you go to prison or get hanged. This part is left out to make the Luddites look foolish and technological progress the hero of the story.
> Adopt technology or the police will arrest you with loaded guns and you go to prison or get hanged
That really not true. Nobody forced them to adopt anything (in a literal way). It’s just that automated factories could produce more faster while paying their workers much less since they didn’t require skilled craftsmen.
Also artisans generally used a guild/cartel model which artificially constricted supply which inflated their incomes.
> out to make the Luddites look foolish and technological progress the hero of the story.
I thought it was pretty obvious to everyone that they were breaking machines because they eliminated demand for high skilled/high pay labour?
