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Today, Luddite is a disparaging term used to refer to a person who is opposed to or cautiously criticalof technology. But it’s important to remember that the original Luddites were not, in fact, opposed to technologyper se.It was not the machines themselves that the Luddites feared and reacted against. Rather, they understood that technology is meant to serve humans, not the other way around. Luddites were not protesting the technology itself; they were objecting to the new economic realitiesbrought about by the machines.In former times, craftsmen had been able to work at their own pace and set their own prices fortheir goods. But with the dawn of industrialization and mass production, craftsmen fell on hard times and wereincreasingly forced to work for the hated factories.Suddenly they were answerable not to themselves but to a factory owner; they had to give up autonomy, or starve. They saw what the machines meant to their livelihood, to their lives, to their families, and to their communities. And they didn’t like what they saw.
What does the underlined mean?
Did they have to supply their products to factory owners, forced to supply in a short time, which made them have a hard time?
Today, Luddite is a disparaging term used to refer to a person who is opposed to or cautiously criticalof technology. But it’s important to remember that the original Luddites were not, in fact, opposed to technologyper se.It was not the machines themselves that the Luddites feared and reacted against. Rather, they understood that technology is meant to serve humans, not the other way around. Luddites were not protesting the technology itself; they were objecting to the new economic realitiesbrought about by the machines.In former times, craftsmen had been able to work at their own pace and set their own prices fortheir goods. But with the dawn of industrialization and mass production, craftsmen fell on hard times and wereincreasingly forced to work for the hated factories.Suddenly they were answerable not to themselves but to a factory owner; they had to give up autonomy, or starve. They saw what the machines meant to their livelihood, to their lives, to their families, and to their communities. And they didn’t like what they saw.
What does the underlined mean?
Did they have to supply their products to factory owners, forced to supply in a short time, which made them have a hard time?
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