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> Adopt technology or the police will arrest you with loaded guns and you go to prison or get hanged

That really not true. Nobody forced them to adopt anything (in a literal way). It’s just that automated factories could produce more faster while paying their workers much less since they didn’t require skilled craftsmen.

Also artisans generally used a guild/cartel model which artificially constricted supply which inflated their incomes.

> out to make the Luddites look foolish and technological progress the hero of the story.

I thought it was pretty obvious to everyone that they were breaking machines because they eliminated demand for high skilled/high pay labour?