Mises Daily
Author:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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The “Luddites” were early 19th-century British textile workers who protested the introduction of mechanized looms by destroying them and issuing proclamations denouncing the new technology in the name of the mythical “King Ludd” of Sherwood Forest. What the Luddites failed to understand — and what many neo-Luddites today fail to understand — is