Walking along the shore at night you come across a huge crowd of people dancing around a bonfire. They leap and frolic in frantic ecstasy. As you watch, one dancer hands a giant bushel-basket full of hundred dollar bills to a man at the center, who throws the cash on the fire. Everyone cheers.

"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"

The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.