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The idea that robots are on the cusp of subsuming all human labor is itself a tool of rentiers: https://pandodaily.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/imag0016.jpg?w=1
by crdoconnor 12y ago
The idea that robots are on the cusp of subsuming all human labor is itself a tool of rentiers:
https://pandodaily.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/imag0016.jpg?w=1000&h=829 https://pandodaily.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/imag0016.jpg?...
(advert by California's restaurant association in protest against minimum wage hikes that will likely deplete their profit margins)
Of course, the idea doesn't necessarily have to be true in order to serve its purpose.
- gohrt 12y agoThe idea doesn't have to be false to be dishonestly used, either. Restaurants already replace servers by ipads, wherever customers tolerate it.
- crdoconnor 12y agoA restaurant I used to frequent went way too far with the ipad thing. I think they 'optimistically' fired about 1/4 or 1/5 of their staff when the amount of labor actually saved was maybe 1/10. The service went from okay to atrocious when they reopened with ipads and they lost a lot of customers. It was plainly clear that they were WAY understaffed. You see the same starry eyed optimism surrounding Google's driverless cars.