yes. ok. but, people today assign additional shades of meaning to "Luddite." also, one can compare the activities of the original Luddites in England to the ac

yes. ok. but, people today assign additional shades of meaning to "Luddite." also, one can compare the activities of the original Luddites in England to the activities of the author of that WP article. the original Luddites "destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest" because business owners were using that machinery to "to get around standard labour practices." in a similar way, one might argue that this journalist is damaging Bodega's reputation (a critical element of any startup's "machinery") because it gets around a standard immigrant labor practice (starting and working in NYC corner shops).