No, workers are not doing more for less compensation then they were in 1811. Overall things have improved, though obviously not ideally or universally.
For instance we all have relatively cheap well made clothing in a variety of different designs, primarily because of the automation machines that the Luddites smashed. The problem with Luddites is that they blindly attacked automation when their issue was with capitalism.
No, workers are not doing more for less compensation then they were in 1811. Overall things have improved, though obviously not ideally or universally.
For instance we all have relatively cheap well made clothing in a variety of different designs, primarily because of the automation machines that the Luddites smashed. The problem with Luddites is that they blindly attacked automation when their issue was with capitalism.
The difference is that today you don’t see the slaves. They are in the sweatshops.
Even the people working in sweatshops have better access to clothing than peasants pre-industrialisation.
You know proper socialist countries industrialised as fast as they could because their leaders saw the benefits it would bring?