13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
6:41 p.m.
Subject: Re: luddites!
From: Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:14:52 -0400
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
What wasnt noticed by the displaced employees was the 7 that got bumpped
went to making more machines, fixing them, selling them teaching those three
left behind how to run them.
Just a different view. With 35 years of high tech I've seen a few cycles
and even displaced a few times.
Allison
>After all, aren't we all a bunch of
Techno-Ludites :^)
i haven't wasted any bandwidth *all day* so,
I'd like to point out that the Ludites where not anti-technology.
They were anti-loosing-your-job-due-to-technology. They didn't think it
was right that 10 people working should become 3 people working just
because a new machine was installed...
(and, I think they had a point. I think economists are all smoking
really good dope when they talk about mythical 'productivity gains')
-brad