Fully automated luxury communism
by Brian Merchant from Economics | The Guardian on (#55JC)
Supporters believe fully automated luxury communism is an opportunity to realise a post-work society, where machines do the heavy lifting and employment as we know it is a thing of the past
At a time when robots crowd factory lines, algorithms steer cars and smart screens litter the checkout aisles, automation is the new spectre. The robots, they say, are coming for our jobs.
Let them, reply the luxury communists.
The new age offers a number of undeniable boons and advancements ... that promise to make drudgery redundant
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