Read the passage and answer the questions:

Charkha

What I object to, is the craze for 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. I want to save time and labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth, not in the hands of few, but in the hands of all.

YOUNG INDIA, 13 NOVEMBER 1924

Khaddar does not seek to destroy all machinery but it does regulate its use and check its weedy growth. It uses machinery for the service of the poorest in their own cottages. The wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery.

YOUNG INDIA, 17 MARCH 1927

What fear is expressed in this paragraph?

Machines will replace human labor and thousands will go unemployed

The correct answer is Option (2) → Machines will replace human labor and thousands will go unemployed

The passage shows the writer’s fear that excessive use of labour-saving machinery will throw thousands of people out of work and lead to unemployment and starvation.