Key phrase: over time. If you fear technology, you're a Luddite. If you're a Luddite, you were a protected trade at the turn of the 19th century that saw their profession destroyed. And lo and behold this led to mechanization and a growth of output and the whole of the modern era etc etc. It also led to 120 years of Dickensian nightmares and a slum class unprecedented in Europe. Everyone fawns about the Victorian era without paying lip service to the nasty, brutish and short lives of the 95% of people who lived it. The problem with invented solutions is they have to be implemented and they generally don't favor the rich. And, as the rich tend to make the rules, they aren't immutable per se... but the natural tendency of culture is towards a Dore woodcut of hell.