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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

And your points would fall apart if you actually decided to read what I wrote instead of cherry picking sections out of context. For instance:

Especially not when that country had an empire at the time that could force vassals to follow the same rules!

The rules in question: "They were mostly violently suppressed by the government, any gains that they might have had were really temporary and local (like some temporary wage increase)". A temporary local response to some movement where individual capitalists decide to temporarily bump up the wages to appease luddites and so they can continue exploiting workers and accumulating capital unimpeded isn't some universal rule that was applied everywhere.

Also this entire exchange literally came about because of some off-hand remark about luddites that wasn't even important to the argument.

Whatever, I'm disengaging.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 8 months ago*

    Sorry for thinking that other humans deserve to live a happy life without fear of their livelihood being destroyed, that's very unlefty of me.

    I didn't know that using robots to replace people by doing a bad but cheap job was a core tenet of socialism.

    I'll have to read up on the part of the socialist theory that states "For the Robots and the Capitalist Oligarchs that own them, by the Robots and the Capitalist Oligarchy that owns them"

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