Not arguing for anything, was just noting that those arguments are not new, being central to Marx's theory.
Yes, we speak of robots and AI now and the rate at which jobs are destroyed has certainly surpassed the rate at which new jobs get created, but the means of production being in the hands of the few (the bourgeoisie), along with automation, these have been happening ever since the dawn of the industrial age and is what animated Karl Marx.
Read "The Communist Manifesto", it will ring a bell.
But all this has given us communism, with disastrous results. And yeah, there are always people arguing that communism wasn't "implemented right", which is what you get with any rotten theories.
So what I'm proposing is:
(1) awareness that these arguments are essentially Marxism and
(2) be prepared to defend them by coming up with a theory for why it could work this time.
Yes, we speak of robots and AI now and the rate at which jobs are destroyed has certainly surpassed the rate at which new jobs get created, but the means of production being in the hands of the few (the bourgeoisie), along with automation, these have been happening ever since the dawn of the industrial age and is what animated Karl Marx.
Read "The Communist Manifesto", it will ring a bell.
But all this has given us communism, with disastrous results. And yeah, there are always people arguing that communism wasn't "implemented right", which is what you get with any rotten theories.
So what I'm proposing is:
(1) awareness that these arguments are essentially Marxism and
(2) be prepared to defend them by coming up with a theory for why it could work this time.