It’s a very interesting thesis. Thank you for sharing. I’ve never looked at these communities through this lens and in the context of the ramifications of AI and economic displacement. I can definitely see how the scenarios you have laid could occur. One being, the forced assimilation of the Luddite’s to the dictums of the technological “utopia”, making a large group of individuals vulnerable to the dictates of a charismatic populist offering easy solutions and salvation.