> Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to > quell the revolt of specialized labor. > > Karl Marx <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/karl_marx.html> > Read more at > http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/karlmarx402284.html#1GRgivCOOdEjPqo6.99On > Feb 15, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Mark Wain <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marx said: “The barrier of capitalist production is capital itself.” > Automated production lowers the value (and price) of commodity, increases its > surplus value, unemployment, over-production and shortage of investment > outlet. Capital can no longer handle such a high-level anarchist production > and jobless system. It will eventually have to call its antithesis for > rescue. If not, the end of its life is near. -Mark > > Message: 10 > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:03:14 -0600 > From: raghu <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] AI and robots threaten to unleash mass > unemployment, scientists warn > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Message-ID: > > <CAJXSi-yVW1Kwme4qJ9LU-GzJAcH9APKc=LS+QJvhfDJc7m=v...@mail.gmail.com > <mailto:CAJXSi-yVW1Kwme4qJ9LU-GzJAcH9APKc=LS+QJvhfDJc7m=v...@mail.gmail.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Prof Vardi said it would be hard to think of any jobs that would not > > be vulnerable to robotics and AI ? even sex workers. ?Are you going to > > bet against sex robots?? he asked. ?I?m not.? > > > > > Ask a computer scientist to comment on social or economic phenomena and this > is the quality of insight you can expect to get. > -raghu. > > > This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email>_______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > <https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l>
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