Rakesh,
Strict labor-value adherence once again led you to the brink of
absurdity on Saturday. The limit on mechanization is physics, not surplus
value. Clearly, clearly, clearly, if a series of solar powered robots could
be created to fulfill the needs of a group of people, they would no longer
have to work. it is equally clear that it is possible to invent such robots
under capitalism and it is equally clear that those robots would sell like
hotcakes. Since the capitalist who made the robots wouldn't give atinker's
damn about anyone but hiumself, he would be deaf to the pledings of his
capitalist comrades that their economy was coming unhinged. At the end, he
would probably be accepting barter instead of money, since values would go
cock-eyed, but people would have their robots.
peace
