alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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.