[TheGamerUncle]

there is a quite clear well and obvious difference between job elimination and job transformation and job change. But the express purpose of creating textile machines was not job elimination, it was output increase, meanwhile AI is not at least in business cases presented as an output increaser.

AI is presented and designed as an employee replacer, plain and simple.

[janice1999]

Textile machines were attractive to owners since they could employ less skilled people who could be replaced if they tried to organise and strike. This enabled the factory owners to take more of the profit and treat workers badly. It was the loss of high skilled jobs and the consolidation of wealth that drove the Luddite movement.