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From Luddites to Humanoids: What the Steam-Engine Era Tells Us About AI Robotics Replacing Human Labor
The Luddites were not anti-technology. They were protesting a bundle of wage collapse, skill devaluation, and lost autonomy that mechanization triggered but did not constitute. Reading the modern economics literature — Acemoglu & Restrepo, Allen on the Engels' Pause, Caprettini & Voth on Captain Swing, Autor on polarization, Brynjolfsson on the productivity J-curve — the question for the age of perception-aware and lingual robotics is not whether the reinstatement effect will eventually arrive. It is whether the adjustment window has been compressed past the point where the historical safety valves can open in time.