I don't think your premise is true. Remember John Henry, worried that the steam engine would put him out of a job drilling holes in rocks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

Ludditism has a long history, and they made the exact same arguments about job loss in the 1800s as today.

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crote a day ago | parent [-]

You should look up the history of what actually happened with the Luddites. They weren't opposed to the machines (many were even machine operators!), they were opposed to the manufacturers circumventing labour rights. Turns out people don't like routinely seeing 12-year-old children getting scalped by a weaving machine!

They targeted the machines because it was the most convenient way to sabotage a factory, not because they hated the machine itself.

	▲	OroPla 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Luddites are generally made fun of because they somehow believed that destroying property was an effective way of protest, instead of providing others with an excuse to arrest them. Labor rights did not exist at the time (1768-1817), so nobody would need to circumvent them, either. This was when efforts were made to create them. And the Luddites made a negative contribution.
	▲	HDThoreaun 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What actaully happened to the luddites is they completely failed in their goal to slow down the industrial revolution and force business owners to pay their cartel.