This has been true since the Luddite uprising in which skilled technical workers who cared deeply about the textiles they produced using complex machines railed against a new kind of machine that produced manifestly *lower quality* fabric in much higher volumes:
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Pluralistic: Brian Merchant’s “Blood In the Machine” (26 Sep 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
