Chapter 488: Does the machine take people's jobs? (three)

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From February 1812 to January 1813, the Ludd movement spread rapidly in Yorkshire. They rushed into the airport, smashed the machines that took their jobs, and seriously damaged the interests of the bourgeoisie.
The town government of Yi Guo also launched a quick response and promulgated the "Security Protection Act" to suppress Luddites through violent agencies.
At first, due to the strict internal discipline of the Luddites, the suppression and search by the military and police had little effect.
Luddites tend to assemble at night and sometimes mask their faces. Their goals are very clear, often machines or factory products. At the same time, they will not plunder any other private property of the factory owner. Once the task is completed, the team leader will proceed. Roll call (usually called code).
They are numerous but extremely scattered, and often a dozen or so people can complete the destruction of a factory, which makes the capitalists and the town government extremely troublesome.
The Luddites in Lancashire put forward some political needs, such as reforming the House of Commons and absorbing some working-class individuals as members of parliament. These initiatives later became part of the propositions of the National Charter Movement.
A leader of the Ludd Movement, George Mailer, once stated that such an action "until those workers can rely on their own hands and crafts to feed their children", while stating that "we destroy these machines and destroy these properties. This kind of hostile behavior, but this is a powerful action again and again, a call!"
After these movements, the factory owners gradually compromised. Many woolen merchants closed their businesses or began to put away their own machines, but there were still some particularly stubborn large factories still "resisting", and this is the next goal of the Luddites. The movement has entered the second phase.
But at this time they encountered setbacks. For example, George Mailer led dozens of workers to attack the Roforz factory at night. They were blocked in front of the big iron gate and had no choice but to smash out a small hammer. hole.
They were exposed to the field of vision of the guards, and several people were shot and killed. In the end, they could only retreat in a hurry before the officers arrived.
Two seriously injured Luddites were abandoned in front of the factory and were severely tortured by the town government without revealing any information.
During the burial, thousands of people gathered to mourn the dead Luddites, leaving "the town government in great danger."
As a result, the morale of the Luddites plummeted and their identities were exposed.
Workers who cannot find a way out can only resort to the last irrational means: assassination.
On April 28, 1812, Mailer assassinated a prestigious factory owner, Hosfa, and plunged the Ludd movement into a danger of "morality".
The local people thought that the Luddites were cruel, and the lawbreakers also used the banner of the Luddites to looting, and the Luddites fell apart.
A concentrated trial of the Luddites was held on January 12, 1813 (the largest of many sporadic trials). Of the 66 people, 17 people including George Mailer were sentenced to death, and 6 people were sentenced to 7 years of exile. , 1 person was sentenced to life exile, 16 people were released on bail, and the others were acquitted.
The Ludd movement, which had lasted for nearly a year, died down.
For the long-term development of the country, the town government has resolutely implemented a strong industrial policy to protect new inventions and creations. It is bound to allow advanced machine production to completely replace backward manual production, thus completing the first industry. revolution.
Nevertheless, the "heirs" of the Ludd movement are still active in the country's society. Sometimes they have sporadic conflicts with factory owners, and sometimes they put forward new political demands in the name of trade unions.
After the 1930s and 1940s, the charter movement of the country was in full swing, and the working class used peaceful demonstrations, petitions, and even violent conflicts to fight for themselves the right to vote and various social security rights.
For a long time, the interpretation of the Ludd movement was an uprising formed by the working class against the oppression of the bourgeoisie, but later people gradually realized that the workers in the Ludd movement did not point their fingers at the factory employers, but at the employers. A machine that can replace their work.
This movement is actually a movement of workers swearing to the death to defend "manual production." Although machines are more efficient, their livelihoods are unsustainable. For workers, how can they care about the future?
In fact, in many European regions where the textile industry is developed, people's resistance to machines is even worse. For example, in the empire of the will, because the strength of the workers’ guild is too strong, the workers can choose to throw the inventors of the machine into the water through a
democratic vote
, thus keeping their
rice bowls
, but its consequences It is also fatal.
The attitude towards machines directly affected the development level of the textile industry in Kuiguo and the will empire. A series of strong industrial protection policies such as patent law and invention law made the first industrial revolution develop and complete in Kuiguo. It became the
empire that the sun never sets
at its peak.
But in the middle are the blood and tears of countless workers, colonial people, and slaves.
This kind of mercantilism strategy proves from the side that free market and free competition cannot give birth to the industrial revolution. Let alone the impact of monopoly companies on the domestic market. It is difficult to reconcile the contradictions of various interest groups, and it is difficult to grasp the development direction of the times.
After the second industrial revolution, with the active working class, European and American countries have successively introduced many protection bills for unemployed workers, including public services such as eight-hour work hours, dismissal subsidies, unemployment subsidies, and skills training for changing jobs to help those Under the impact of new technologies, unemployed workers find jobs again ~EbookFREE.me~, making irrational and violent movements like the Ludd movement slowly disappear in history.
But today, many people still call themselves "new Luddites." They worry that after the emergence of artificial intelligence and new Internet technologies, there will be concentrated and large-scale unemployment in the society, and the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor, which will lead to social unrest, so they firmly oppose the development of science and technology.
Among them is Kasinski, an American genius scientist, who has an IQ of 167 and was admitted to the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University at the age of 16.
In order to resist the development of new technology, he resolutely lived in seclusion and mailed bombs to famous American scientists for 18 consecutive years, causing 3 deaths and 20 injuries.
He mailed a letter to the American newspaper, saying that if he could publish his academic papers, he would stop the terrorist attacks. After that, the paper published in the "New York Times" and the Washington Post was called "Industrial Society and Its Future" ".
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