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Ha! More machines yet longer hours (more relative AND absolute value)? What does that mean for the "tendency of the organic composition to rise"...? Also what should we make of the tendency of multinationals to eschew automation in favor of exploiting the massive reserve armies of cheap/unfree labor in the periphery? Isn't that a function of the increase in capital-saving (as opposed to labor-saving) technology; i.e. the containerization/logistics revolution? I'm thinking of John Smith's work on "value captured" production chains... > 14 июня 2015 г., в 22:10, Philip Ferguson via Marxism > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> написал(а): > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Can robots and artificial intelligence serve humanity? > https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/can-robots-and-artificial-intelligence-serve-humanity/ > > At the same time, it’s a pointer to how crappy the capitalist system is > that things that save human beings working time are used to make people > unemployed and create new poverty instead of being used to cut working time > while keeping everyone in jobs and well-paid. > > Indeed, what a comment on capitalism that with all these brilliant > technological developments we are working longer hours than we were 50 > years ago without being any better off. In fact, a great many are worse off. > > Whatever happened to the leisure society? – > https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/whatever-happened-to-the-leisure-society/ > > Capitalism and the tyranny of time: > https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/capitalism-and-the-tyranny-of-time/ > > Low pay, longer hours and less social mobility – welcome to 21st century NZ > capitalism: > https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/low-pay-longer-hours-and-less-social-mobility/ > > Phil > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/shalva.eliava%40outlook.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
