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That’s not terrifying, that’s awesome. Economists were saying decades ago that near the year 2000 we shouldn’t working much because of the gains of productivity
by tarsinge 5y ago
That’s not terrifying, that’s awesome. Economists were saying decades ago that near the year 2000 we shouldn’t working much because of the gains of productivity. We would be free while everything would be automated. But instead we have billionaires confiscating the gains and owning the means of production. Not arguing, just saying automating work isn’t bad and can be good in itself, that’s the society rules that make it so.
- specialist 5y agoAutomation implies boosting productivity. Who gets to keep the surplus (profit)? During New Deal and Great Society, Capital shared that surplus with Labor. Since the mid 1970s, not so much. Instead of automating, we could simply eliminate huge swathes of work. Squint a bit, and all the bureaucratic burden (bullshit jobs) just look like very complicated rent seeking.