>Throughout the Industrial Revolution there were periodic panics about the impact of automation on jobs, going back to the so-called Luddites, - textile workers

>Throughout the Industrial Revolution there were periodic panics about the impact of automation on jobs, going back to the so-called Luddites, - textile workers who in the 1810s smashed the new machines that were threatening their jobs. This is such a common misconception that the wikipedia entry for luddite mentions it in the first paragraph. They destroyed weaving machinery for the same reason French taxi drivers shut down roads in 2016. Revisionist historians depict luddites as anti-technology for the same reason Forbes chose to depict the French taxi drivers as anti-smartphone.