tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583664239886397638.post4179417796610136478..comments2024-03-25T07:37:50.691-04:00Comments on Trotsky's Children: Robots of the World, Unite!Dan Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15050387936888632189noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583664239886397638.post-21272720667636322662014-10-14T05:37:18.494-04:002014-10-14T05:37:18.494-04:00Do your consumers work for a living? What happens ...Do your consumers work for a living? What happens when they lose their jobs. If they have no income what use then are cheaper goods? Only the people doing highly specialized work will benefit, until one day their job is mechanized too. And sure mechanization create does new jobs like that of computer programmers and engineers, but as those fields get saturated their wages will stagnate and their value will decrease, quite likely an Indian or Chinese will take their job. At the end of the day as mechanization increases you will have to turn to the principle of "from each according to the their ability, to each according to their needs". Society will have to become as it is in Ian M Bank's Culture Series.Karimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02739398018253449367noreply@blogger.com