[Karellen]

The problem isn't that tools make jobs easier, it's that when jobs get easier the benefits accrue to the owners of capital - by erasing jobs - instead of to the people doing the jobs - by allowing them to create the same amount of value for customers/society in less time, improving their standard of living.

Luddites weren't against automation. They were just against automation being used against them by others, rather than for them, by them.