That is an absurdly facile take. All of those things predate modern technology, and they could happily buy them had they been made without. The argument misses

That is an absurdly facile take. All of those things predate modern technology, and they could happily buy them had they been made without. The argument misses the entire point of what it means to be Amish. Even the wording (in particular, the choice of "sneered") makes me think the whole thing was written in bad faith.