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BRENDAN FRASER in STILL BREATHING (1997) dir. James Ford Robinson

BONUS:

And yet people will scream at you if you tell them to read theory

The luddites lived before organized labor as we understand it today. If a new technology came around, it meant their labor would be devalued and they would be laid off. There were no unions to bargain with the capitalists. Their only option for maintaining their value was, quite literally, destroying the machinery meant to replace them.

This was understandable, but it wasn't by any means right. It was a band-aid applied to a much deeper issue (evidenced by the fact that uhh. It didn't work). "Halting progress" isn't actually something you can do, short of destroying any writing on a specific technology, and it doesn't benefit the working class in the long run, as it condemns us to lower productivity which forces us into longer hours of more dangerous work.