14. A Stark Moral Choice I could have made money this way and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people and feel that I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
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Ruskin was anti- technology: understandably as he lived during the time of the worst effects of industrialisation. He abhored the decline in creativity and the de-skilling of many traditional crafts. In later years he fostered adult training and guilds to try to retain the qualities of craftmanship and cottage industries in the face of the factory system.