The final chapters of *Blood* brings the Luddites into the present day, finding parallels in the labor organizing of the Amazon warehouse workers led by Chris Smalls. The liberal reformers who offered patronizing support to the Luddites - but didn't imagine that they could be masters of their own destiny - are echoed in the rhetoric of #AndrewYang. 

And of course, the factory owners' rhetoric is easily transposed to the modern tech baron. 

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