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"utilizing automation to reduce the individual workload for everyone and spread it over more people." Which is a fallacy of composition - unless you believe yo
by neilwilson 5y ago
"utilizing automation to reduce the individual workload for everyone and spread it over more people."
Which is a fallacy of composition - unless you believe you can turn a dumpster diver into a brain surgeon just by applying some amount of training.
It's known as the appeal to fungibility and it doesn't stack up.
Jobs are becoming more skilled, not less, which means that we all have to deploy our hours in solidarity with the skilled who we want to work a full week.
Otherwise they will just stop on Tuesday, once they have made enough for themselves, and have the rest of the week off.
- mschuster91 5y ago> Which is a fallacy of composition - unless you believe you can turn a dumpster diver into a brain surgeon just by applying some amount of training. So... take the workload of one brain surgeon, and hire two brain surgeons with 20 hours a week each? Of course society would need to (drastically) expand training capacity, but it would be better off in the end.
- neilwilson 5y agoThat's precisely my point. There aren't enough people who are capable of being brain surgeons. The majority of us cannot become one. We're just not good enough. That was always the failure of the 'socially necessary labour time' idea. It assumes complete fungibility amongst people, and that isn't the case.