The Luddites deserve more credit than they get in popular culture

Friend of The Sizzle, Samantha Floreani, has another banger of an opinion piece worth a read. They write in Overland about Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, a book about the Luddites and how modern society has misunderstood these people are dumb idiots against technology. The Luddites provide a historical example of "organised and rational working-class solidarity against the technological manifestations of power, profit and labour exploitation". They weren't anti-technology for the sake of it, but anti-technology because it came at the expense of our humanity.