The luddites were a group of men who were faced with the destruction of their livelihoods by new weaving machines. In response to this they would go to the factories that had such weaving machines and smash them up. The word luddite is now ascribed to anyone resistant to change as though the luddites greivance was that weaving machines were new and so bad. By it's new definition luddites are the kind of people who would complain at the word "pirate" being given a new meaning whereas to really qualify the new definitions should adversely affect their livelihoods and they probably ought to go round and smash them up so they can continue to make a living out of the old definitions.

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