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Pertaining Adorno, Marx, etc...: does it not contain abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? The worker chooses argmax_[specialization]: E[Utility(Li
by pizza 9y ago
Pertaining Adorno, Marx, etc...: does it not contain abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?
The worker chooses argmax_[specialization]: E[Utility(Life | specialization, society)]
The executive decides argmax_[production decision]: E[Utility(Enterprise | production decision, society)]
The "sphere's turn" means that capital's arms race creates precise solutions that don't necessarily remain backwards compatibility with the previously-solved problems humans would still have to face.
If in an idealized model the capitalist bias is towards a hierarchical graph/network of production (the rich don't work for the poor at a loss), then the expendability of the constantly-repopulating labor pool increases, due to technological updates in productivity but also mainly disparate rates of growth of wealth between the worker and the owner. Even if one laborer family has a bigger nest-egg for their child than their neighbor.
The expendability of the labor pool drives the fortune of private enterprise's owners and the ordinary person's decreasing autonomy reflects the inflation of the cost of social autonomy itself. What is consumed is then the responsibility of the people who own the deed to the organizations where the development of the consumable occurs.
All the decisions that end up in a bias towards increased consumption are decisions that weighed by numbers, dollars, item counts and quantitative optimization. (Though I suppose, quite tongue-in-cheek, it could be argued that it is not axiomatically sound to assume a person need to participate in capitalist society, given that there is a long history of our species before the past 300 , or, (gratuitously,) 10000, years.)