No social organization will long survive if the elites of that organization do not care for the welfare of the general membership; a case in point...the protestant reformation.
https://docs.google.com/a/tilburguniversity.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtYWxpa2N1cnVrfGd4OjUwMWYwNTkzMGM1MDcxNjE On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Che <comandantegri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've already explained here that further capitalist technological > development -- including that of any 'OU' & 'Cold Fusion' discoveries -- is > incompatible with the democratic and healthy further development of Human > society (howevermuch capitalism, in the Past, freed Humanity from the > clutches of feudal and pre-feudal obscurantism and squalor). However, all I > really ever get in response on this e-list is the usual know-nothing, > knee-jerk anti-communist bilgewater... So of course, the actual logic of > capital accumulation remains essentially unexamined by most of you (as is > the intention of some, here); and this innate, scientifically-examinable, > historically-determined, social-economic development has remained a closed > book to most of you your ENTIRE lives: because you have uncritically > accepted a certain political-economic mental conditioning as being good, > honest coin. Which it AIN'T. > > Short answer: the capitalist development of technology essentially > ENSLAVES the working-class: by its very logic, in its very essence. The > socialist/communist development of the EXACT SAME technology OTOH, will do > the EXACT OPPOSITE (once we are freed of World-wide capitalist sabotage): > it will in fact FREE Humanity, forever, from the clutches of class > exploitation. > > QED > > > You want your 'Star Trek' Future..? Embrace Socialism -- or likely surely > die in the latest, up-coming periodic capitalist conflagration, which will > be called 'WWIII' (By somebody... Somewhere... Sometime... if not us.) > > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> https://techxplore.com/news/2017-09-burger-robots.html >> >> http://www.misorobotics.com/ >> >> Might robots prove so cost efficient and reliable that restaurant >> employers replace a significant number of workers with these robots? >> > >