Which leader said the following lines?
“What I object to, is the ‘craze’ for machinery, not machinery as such. The craze is for what they call labour-saving machinery. Men go on ‘saving labour’ till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Mahatma Gandhi
These words are Mahatma Gandhi’s, written in Young India in 1924. Gandhi was not against machines as such, but against labour-saving machinery that throws people out of work; he wanted work for every hand, through village and cottage industries such as khadi.