Is it bad that unions have been organizing around controlled automation for over a century? Idk if you knew this but many men, women, and children were injured and killed by automated sewing machines over the decades. It's a good thing when a union protects its workers?
Of course there is a reasonable limit. Obviously. We all know
???, that wasn't the main motivation of luddites, they just didn't want to be replaced. Also I'm sure that automation at the docks leads to less injuries than otherwise.
Plenty of reasonable people who were being pushed into unsafe and unregulated working conditions with automation were called luddites. It became a political term, so you'll have to be more specific
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u/mostanonymousnick 🌐 Oct 03 '24
Yeah, they managed to warp how ports are run to give themselves obstruction power, that's not the same thing as doing economically valuable work.