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The people didn't get screwed by the technological advancement. They were forsaken by society. The technological advancement will happen either way. The problem that can be avoided is letting people starve on the streets but as history has shown we prefer to silence them with bullets rather than help them.

The "Luddite" argument is about what happens to the "useless" people. So far everyone just says "It's gonna be fine. Everyone else will be better off." which is equivalent to "fuck you I've got mine".

The article describes the phrase "luddite" not as people afraid of technology but rather poor exploited people that were shot to death by the government.

By using Luddites as an argument in favor of technological progress you're simply advocating to kill people who step out of line.

1 million truck drivers become jobless all at once? It wouldn't surprise me if 10k or even 100k of those are killed by the government during protests.