While this definition isn’t necessarily wrong, it [purposefully] leaves out important context, namely that the so-called Luddites opposed technology and automation due to cuts to their incomes and rights, which were very obviously coming.

If industrial corporations guaranteed to keep all employees, to not lower their salaries, and to maintain the quality standards - the people we know today as Luddites would have never protested.

It was never about technology itself, despite what top Google results or AI summary will tell you. It was about people’s livelihoods, rights and freedoms, as well as quality of the craft.