The Niemoller poem and the plight of luddites are used today as hideous strawmen. Anybody who feels their way of life or livelihood is threatened is going to fi

The Niemoller poem and the plight of luddites are used today as hideous strawmen. Anybody who feels their way of life or livelihood is threatened is going to fight. You can make a perfectly rational argument that it's an impossible fight, but it's irrational to expect humans in that situation not to fight. It's also pointlessly shitty to mock them, and to imply that the are somehow hypocrites for benefiting from, or not fighting against, similar past disruptions they had no stake in or weren't alive to experience. The disruption of livelihoods by developments in technology is not comparable to the topic of the original poem (ethnic cleansing). Every single person who fought against the changes you enumerated was right. And it was also right for every single one of those changes to come to pass. Two correct, rational, or inevitable things can be in conflict. The world isn't that simple. It's ridiculous and immoral to attack the very concept of acting in fundamental self interest.