that's fully entailed in what I just said, I think? not a random walk, not an alien agent willing itself into being, but causes & effects
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start by just thinking of human labor as having a functionally identical role in production to machine-labor
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then ask what incentives govern whether or not human labor will be automated. they're there & they're adequate to explain the phenomena
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methodological assumption: goal-directed humans don't want to do work that a machine can do for them just as easily and no less efficiently
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alienated labor doesn't have a direct interest in the end product of the process it's part of. purpose-built sub-AI robots have no interests
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humans do want to get paid, have days off, don't want to lose fingers, etc, etc. in economic terms those are potential drags on efficiency
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so it just follows that capital intensity tracks both labor supply/demand and working class power relative to owners of productive capital
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it's hard to imagine a world where capitalism still functions and there are no humans *who'll work cheaper than a robot* in *any* sector
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Like every other piece of Malthusian realism, Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages has been systematically suppressed by social democracy. ...
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... Strictly speaking, that means capitalism has only been happening around the back for over a century now. ...
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... Iron Laws can't actually be dispelled by democratic fiat, but they can be pushed into increasingly weird channels. ...
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... The current crisis is almost entirely the convergent Nemesis of returning pseudo-dispelled Iron (Malthusian) Laws. ...
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... The robot unemployment engine (aka "Ricardo explains how Minimum Wage Legislation Buys you Skynet") is just one of these.
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