"The substitution of machinery for human labour, is often very injurious to the interests of the class of labourers"
"The opinion entertained by the labouring class, that the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests, is not founded on prejudice and error, but is conformable to the correct principles of political economy."
--David Ricardo 1821
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology-capital-and-skills
"The Luddites objected to the industrialists who used machinery to depress wages, evade labor laws, and degrade the quality of products in order to profit at their expense.
The real Luddites were not know-nothing technophobes, despite their current reputation, and they certainly did not hate technology. In fact, many were technicians themselves, and understood better than most exactly how a technology would be used to exploit them."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-luddites-in-the
Pedro J. Hdez
