"In that case, I'll inform Ye Fan of the news later, let him get ready, remember to tell him, there can't be any mess, otherwise he will only ask."

Guo Fengxiao saw the opinions of most people, and they all agreed, and they also nodded, and directly approved the plan through internal decision-making.

In fact, with the arrival of the wave of technology, it is a matter of time before some people are eliminated.

After all, using machines to replace manpower was originally intended to improve work efficiency and liberate manpower, but I never thought that many workers would be laid off and go home and be completely eliminated.

Could it be that inventors, or even technology, are the culprits who make everyone have nothing to eat?

Is advanced productivity a mistake?

What do we really need, is it super efficient, or is it to have everyone to eat, but the productivity is low?

The workers smashed the machine, which can only be explained by the word "revenge". You can't do anything with the capitalists, you can only vent your anger on the machine.

The machine can replace the worker, indicating that the machine's ability has reached the level of the worker.

It also shows that the level of workers is the same as that of machines, which forces workers to improve their technical level, and if they exceed machines, they will not be replaced by machines, so that society will develop.

If we give up science and technology in order to save everyone's jobs, we will only stagnate society, and it will only stop science and technology.

It's like an ancient dynasty, tying up the population with a lot of arable land and agriculture, so that everyone has something to eat, but what about the progress of society?

It was almost a turtle speed of progress, and in the Qing Dynasty, it even went back for more than 300 years, which made China fall into dire straits.

The first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution that occurred in Europe, although many people eliminated a lot of people, and at the same time, many people smashed machines by themselves in order to express their dissatisfaction, but they still could not stop the progress of science and technology.

In the end, the European ships bombarded the door of the Qing Dynasty, and the history of blood and tears began.

Therefore, it is not science and technology or capitalists that make workers unemployed, but the trend of social development and the tide of the general trend.

The capitalist wants to maximize profits and save money, and of course he will dismiss a group of people, because this group of people can no longer meet his production needs.

What the workers have to do is either to exercise their business acumen and invest with the only funds they have, or to improve their skills so that they will not be replaced by machines.

What exactly do we need? In my opinion, it is to improve work efficiency so that everyone has something to eat.

In the early days, workers destroyed advanced machines because they used them, which caused many workers to lose their jobs. And the unemployed workers have no security in their lives, and it is very difficult to survive.

The industrial revolution led to rapid technological progress and a rapid increase in labor productivity, which improved the quality of life of capitalists and workers, and raised the material and cultural level of society.

But at the same time, it has also caused social problems such as environmental pollution, which have not been solved to this day.

And the workers have become another kind of slaves, their low-priced labor force has created a large amount of capital for the capitalists, and their living environment and material enjoyment are still so scarce, sacrificing their own living standards and development opportunities to feed those capitalists for nothing!

At the same time, the progress of science and technology has caused some people to lose their jobs because of the increase in efficiency, and some of the people who were originally employed have been eliminated, and even the profession he is engaged in no longer needs him, and he will starve to death if he does not change jobs.

No matter who it is, they will rise up and fight back.

It's like one day, your boss tells all the employees of your company that you can go home and drink the northwest wind, and your work is all done by computers and robots.

What would you think?

So now Guo Fengxiao is facing a situation that is just like the first industrial revolution of the year, where machines robbed countless workers of their jobs.

A calm and peaceful night in the 60s of the 18th century.

There was a merchant family in Lankai County, the man in his 40s, who was an ordinary textile worker, but through his ingenuity he invented a textile machine and won a lot of money.

While the family was enjoying dinner and hard-won happiness at home, a mob burst into their home, smashed the man's hard-earned loom, and violently evicted them from his house, setting fire to their house.

The mob shouted, "To hell with the murderous machine you made!" ”

The man had no choice but to take his family to Nottinghamshire, where he and his friends partnered to open a textile factory in order to make a living, and as a result, they made more profits, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

The man's name was James Hargreaves, and the loom he invented was the famous "Jenny Loom".

Since then, this scene has continued to appear in history.

The emergence of new technologies has led to mass unemployment among workers, and hatred has grown in the hearts of these ordinary people.

With the continuous development of the industrial revolution, these negative emotions gradually became huge fruits, impacting the normal order of this society.

A few decades later, a massive workers' uprising took place in the country, in which unemployed workers ganged up, burned and smashed machines in an organized and disciplined manner, and violently forced employers to give in.

This workers' uprising was named the "Luddite Movement", and the government took strong measures to suppress and massacre the workers who revolted, extinguished the raging flames of the labor movement, and introduced a series of policies such as patent law and invention law to encourage the creation of efficient machines to replace human labor.

Since then, the workers' movement has risen and fallen, but it has not shaken the country's industrial policy. It is precisely because of such a tough policy that the country completed the first industrial revolution and became a veritable empire on which the sun never sets.

Nowadays, with the extensive development of information technology and artificial intelligence technology, we are once again faced with the problems encountered by the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, so the Luddite movement is even more relevant and worthy of being revisited and reconsidered.

Before the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution in the country, in fact, the government of the country was extremely rejecting the invention of machines.

As early as 1551, Edward VI issued a decree prohibiting the use of raising machines. The reason is precisely because the high efficiency of the raising machine is "too harmful" to this industry.

According to historical sources, "a worker and a child working 12 hours with a raising machine is equivalent to 88 hours for a worker", and it is also said that "a worker and two children can use a raising machine to work as much as the workload of 8 people", which means that the raising machine can replace the work of the shear.