The movie Star Trek 2 has done tremendous damage to peoples' understanding of what a luddite was. In modern terms, luddite wanted a tax on automation to suppor

The movie Star Trek 2 has done tremendous damage to peoples' understanding of what a luddite was. In modern terms, luddite wanted a tax on automation to support loss from tradesworkers who were too old to retrain. It's similar to when bankers wanted a pension buyout at the introduction of the atm. Luddites were pro technology, not anti. They just wanted wage distribution of the productivity gains. They're basically early unions.