Luddism might be justified; at the same time, though, there seem to be potentially transient facts (like low productivity in the developing world) which may explain the problem. I'd also like to lean on them as an example: their lot is the result of being outside the factory system, which takes non-factory humans and produces factory workers with high productivity (cf. Hanson on same). It seems plausible that programming, etc. has that same feature now, so it's not as if we've never done this before. We've done it at least twice (agriculture, factories).