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reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.
The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.
@alexch I recall that the ups and downs of the war market for fabric favored a "flexible workforce" of loom operators.
plutocrats always favor a “flexible workforce” 
(they also seem to always favor war, too, as long as it’s being fought on foreign soil)
also, as pointed out here (around 38 min) they **brought troops back** from fighting Napoleon to crush the popular revolt at home
there were more troops in Nottingham than in France
listen to the whole ep, it’s brutal
@alexch probably "the whole podcast episode list"
@jmeowmeow ugh, i will need to renew my Klonopin prescription before attempting that 
@alexch I could use some principled takedowns of the dominant financialized model of business.