No whey! Aren't economics textbooks already cheesy enough? I don't buy the "jobs are doomed" scenario for reasons having to do with determination of value in capitalism through the expenditure of abstract labour time. Just because that method becomes obsolete (assuming it does) doesn't mean it will "spontaneously disappear." It will simply become more and more superfluous.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm hoping that the astonishing technology shown in the video is not > missed because of the side discussion. The cows walk in from the field > when they choose to be milked, the machine takes over, uses lasers to find > the udder, which is then washed, and THEN the lasers FIND EACH INDIVIDUAL > TEAT. And, not a surprise, the machine records the milk production and the > cow's food consumption. > So I conclude that jobs are doomed. It is only a matter of time, > hopefully months, not years, before academic economists are treated the > same as the cows and the text books turned into cheese. > > As to the side discussion: Dairy farming has always kept cows lactating > -- nothing new caused by this technology, or by the earlier rival milking > machines. Only the farm subsidies specifically tailored to dairy farming > change over time to keep the mountain of cheese from diminishing. > > Gene > > > On Apr 24, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:36:02 -0500 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] ain't gonna be no jobs - farm robotics > > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:15 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > These things are usually horrible from an animal welfare perspective, > so I scanned the article to find out what the catch was. > > > > > > I had to dig deep before I came to this: "But farmers said output > generally increased with robots because most cows like being milked more > often. (To allow lactation, cows are kept in a near-constant state of > impregnation.)". > > > > ======== > > > > What the fuck?!?!?! > > > > > > > > > > Huh? > > > > ===================== > > > > You excised this part: > > > > > > > > > > I guess that is how real Christians care for their fellow beings: by > keeping them in a near-constant state of impregnation. > > > -raghu. > > > > > You're making Richard Dawkins' moronic brand of anti-theism look good. > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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