A carriage, for example, was formerly the product of the labour of a great number of independent artificers, such as wheelwrights, harness-makers, tailors, locksmiths, upholsterers, turners, fringe-makers, glaziers, painters, polishers, gilders, &c. … [I]f a number of carriages are being made simultaneously, some may be in the hands of the gilders while others are going through an earlier process.

The solitaries of the Thebaid found that they became selfish wild beasts, or went mad, if they remained alone; and they formed themselves into lauras, 'lanes' of huts, convents, under a common abbot or father.

In his other statements it is clear that he regards computer programmers as technopeasants, and this is how many corporations do treat them with programming outsourced to low-wage countries like India.

The 20.2 mile (32.5 km) long box girder structure with a central cable-stayed section connects Luchao Port in Nanhui New City in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai with the deep-sea port of Yangshan in Zhejiang Province.