Not only stupid; actively harmful. Luddites are selfish and short-sighted. Imagine if we'd listened to John Henry back in the 1800s - we'd still be wasting our

Not only stupid; actively harmful. Luddites are selfish and short-sighted. Imagine if we'd listened to John Henry back in the 1800s - we'd still be wasting our time digging ditches by hand. We'd never be able to build the wonders of the modern world, and we'd all be worse off as a result.