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Originally Posted by Ursa major  Your assumption seems to be that we (in the "West", wherever that is) live in industrial, rather than post-industrial societies. We don't. The largest sector of a modern economy is the service sector (both in money and employment terms). Whether this is good or not, most employment is not in factories where one could simply push buttons (apart from those on keyboards) to make the economy run.
We are also living in a societies where our life expectancies are increasing by 2.6 years a decade, but our healthy lives by only 0.6 years a decade. Now you may wish to be surrounded by robots (with Windows Android v6 running on them) to meet your needs when you can no longer look after yourself. I'd rather be helped by humans. |
I don't dispute the argument we enjoy the fruits of wealth due to having others perform the menial jobs for us. However, unless we're to believe these workers enjoy perpetual living conditions, East Europeans and Asians will eventually demand that they move past the ilk of industrial living. Unless Africa and the Middle East are stabilized regions at that time, which I'll leave others to speculate, corporations will have to react by radically improving on the automation process, not only to match the factory jobs but also the service industry, which arguably doesn't
create wealth. When robots become more profitable than human labor, I'd be watching out for demands to deconstruct the price system. Marx could have been correct after all.
I only wish for people to do the labor they enjoy. Nothing more, friend.
