RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/115490945003829832
"As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” [...] They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/