Comment section isn’t nuanced enough to have this conversation and I am on a phone, but that is the way that the industry slandered the luddites as the parent claims.

The truth was that the machines produced worse quality goods and were less safe, not that people couldn’t skill up to use them and not that there wasn’t enough demand to keep everyone employed. It was quality and safety.

You should look into the issue further, because I had your opinion too until I soberly looked at what the luddites really were arguing for, it wasn’t the end of looms, it was quality standards and fair advertising to consumers.

Trying to keep all of labor's sweat as capitalist's own cash is bad actually.

Making clothing more efficient by employing children in dangerous factories is bad actually (what happened in the original factories and now at fast fashion).

Given the absolute slop that passes as clothing nowadays, the Luddites had very good points actually.