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What we see through history is that human labour cost goes up and machine cost goes down. Suppose you want to have your car washed. Hiring someone to do that w
by nuancebydefault 2y ago
What we see through history is that human labour cost goes up and machine cost goes down.
Suppose you want to have your car washed. Hiring someone to do that will most likely give the best result: less physical resources used (soap, water, wear of cloth), less wear and tear on the car surface and less pollution and optionally a better result.
Still the benefit/cost equation is clearly in favor of the machine when doing the math, even when using more resources in the process.
What is lacking in our capitalist economic system is the fact of hiring people to perform services is punished by much higher taxes compared to using a machine, which is often even tax deductible. That way, the machine brings only benefits to the user of the machine (often a more wealthy person), less much to society as a whole. If only someone could find a solution to this tragedy.
- Vampiero 2y ago> If only someone could find a solution to this tragedy. Well, someone earlier in the thread said to abandon Marxist thought because it's obsolete. So I don't know how to help you!
- nuancebydefault 2y agoI prefer to not use -ist's and -ism's. I read that Marx wrote he was not a Marxist. Surely his studies and literature got used as a frame of reference for a rather wide set of ideologies. Maybe someone with a deeper background on the topic can chime in with ideas?
- CamperBob2 2y agoIf only someone could find a solution to this tragedy. We did. Save up a few bucks, nothing out of reach, and (as you suggested yourself!) you can afford to buy your own machine. Here you go: https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106 https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106 You'd have received no such largesse from the Marxists. You're welcome.
- Capricorn2481 2y agoForgetting the offhand implication that $6,000 is not out of reach for anyone, this will do nothing. If we're really taking this to its natural conclusion, that AI will be capable of doing most jobs, companies won't care that you have an AI. They will not assign you work that can be done with AI. They have their own AI. You will not compete with any of them, and even if you find a novel way to use it that gives you the gift of income, that won't be possible for even a small fraction of the population to replicate. You can keep shoehorning lazy political slurs into everything you post, but the reality is going to hit the working class, not privileged programmers casually dumping 6 grand so they can build their CRUD app faster. But you're essentially arguing for Marxism in every other post on this thread, whether you realize it or not.
- CamperBob2 2y agoYeah, there's always some reason why you can't do something, I guess... or why The Man is always keeping you down, even after putting capabilities into your hands that were previously the exclusive province of mythology. Perhaps other sites beckon.