@glassbottommeg Mmm thinking about the textile mills in the first stage of industrialization in the UK, it was probably in part because land had to be given by the Monarchy/Lords, so if you had no land to work, or if the harvest was bad, or similar, getting some extra money working at the factory was attractive to some extent. The existence of the Luddites kind of shows that people were aware it was a raw deal, but economic forces and state violence put a lid on that.
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