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> Wages measure human labor, while productivity measures all output, including that which comes from automation. Until we have sentient robots, all that automa
by mullingitover 4mo ago
> Wages measure human labor, while productivity measures all output, including that which comes from automation.
Until we have sentient robots, all that automation is simply a lever with a human laborer at the end of it.
- sitkack 4mo agoWhat limits the length of the lever? The agricultural lever is already crazy long, the manufacturing lever, same. We could be doing the same with less, not more with the same. When do we stop?
- mullingitover 4mo ago> The agricultural lever is already crazy long Depends on where in the world you're looking. In India, something like 50% of the population works in agriculture. At the scale of India's population that's a significant fraction of the population of the planet, it's more than twice the population of the entire US.