Ethan Marcotte“The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it. We can’t possibly imagine a different social order—we just can’t! God decreed that George should be king and the power loom should replace handicraft, and anyone who says otherwise is just wasting their time.”
an actual bus@beep But the power loom is an invention from which we are all benefiting today? The Luddites' activism has not resulted in the survival of their trade.
Perhaps a more fruitful approach would have been to strive for the democratization of the technology meant to take their economic power and give it to the elite.