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Pushkin. Tim here with an exciting announcement about The Cautionary Club, our Patreon community for Cautionary Tales listeners. So many of you joined our live table read earlier this year that we're doing it again. Join me and my production team for a live reading of an unreleased episode about the people who almost invented the iPhone 15 years early and the surprising reasons they failed. This will be a chance for you to see how the stories we tell are developed in real time and ask your burning questions about cautionary tales. It's on the 8th of July at 5pm UK or noon Eastern. If you join the Patreon before then, or if you're already a member, you'll get your exclusive invitation. Head to patreon.com slash cautionary club.
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Mrs. Goodair is enjoying a leisurely breakfast while she reads the morning paper. It's April 1812, and the headlines are dominated by Wellington's military successes in Spain. A strange noise jolts her from her reading. It sounds like the iron gates to her home rattling. She rushes upstairs to get a better view and sees the mob, for it is a mob, more clearly. They're throwing stones, making lewd gestures and shouting for her to open the gates. Two men appear to be wearing dresses, proclaiming loudly to be General Ludd's wives. She knows exactly what this is about. It's about what's in her husband's mill next door. So why are they at her house? Her husband, John Goodair, is out of town. She hovers at the window, unsure of what to do.
The mob leaders grow impatient. They shout to their comrades that it's time to move on and begin marching through the streets of Stockport. As they weave through the town, they smash windows and break down factory doors. By noon, the mob has swelled to over 2,000 men. Soon they run out of targets, so they turn back to where they began. John Goodair's enormous mill. The place many of them have spent their working lives. Once a symbol of pride in their craft, now a symbol of everything they feel is wrong with the industrialised world. They break down the doors, smash through the windows and destroy all they can inside. Every last frame, every last spindle. The mob has grown so large that even the iron gates to the Good Air home can't hold them back.
Mrs Good Air is already gone. A wise move. The Luddites burn the house to the ground. I'm Tim Harford, and you're listening to Cautionary Tales, live at the Bristol Festival of Economics.
Loyal listeners will remember this is not the first time the Luddites have featured on this podcast. Two years ago, I told you about the failure of the Luddite revolution.
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