>>>The future of the laundry worker is not to work for a laundry boss with a
>>>thousands of machine. It is to own a thousand of machine, like a Roman
>>>citizen was owning slaves.
the word "robot" has its origins from word "slave"
The word robot was coined by artist Josef Čapek, the brother of famed
Czechoslovakian author Karel Čapek. Karel Čapek was, among other things, a
science fiction author before there was something officially known as science
fiction, in subject matter along the same vein as George Orwell. He introduced
the word in a play called R.U.R. The full title translating into English as
Rossum’s Universal Robots, which debuted in January of 1921. While writing this
play, he struggled to come up with a word to name the robots, initially
settling on ‘laboři’, from the Latin ‘labor’. He discussed this with his
brother, Josef, and Josef suggested ‘roboti’, which gave rise to the English
‘robot’. ‘Roboti’ derives from the Old Church Slavanic ‘rabota’, meaning
‘servitude’, which in turn comes from ‘rabu’, meaning
‘slave’.http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/where-does-the-word-robot-come-from/
next give the robots some form of artificial intelligence, so they start
thinking that they don't want to be slaves anymore, then we have robot
rebellion like in Westworld
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the future is just the same old shit that happened in the past being recycled,
but repackaged in what superficially seems something new
On Friday, 25 November 2016, 8:26, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]>
wrote:
2016-11-25 2:38 GMT+01:00 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>:
In the future, computers and robots can do nearly all work such as driving
cars, building houses, diagnosing x-rays and performing surgery. Human labor
will gradually become worthless.
This is a point where I disagree.
in fact robots make the value of the worker increase, as it always have.It is
continuous substitution of work by capital.
washing machine makes the value of the laundry worker be higher, as he exploits
capital invested in a machine.What you describe is the tragedy of a worker who
is prevented, by regulation or social barriers, to exploit some capital.The
future of the laundry worker is not to work for a laundry boss with a thousands
of machine. It is to own a thousand of machine, like a Roman citizen was owning
slaves.
The big error of Marxist vision, and in fact old-style 19/20th century vision
in the West is to separate capital and work. It was in fact exact when stated,
because at that time workers and capitalist were sociologically separated, and
capital was huge because of the size of steam engines and following, and need
of taylorization of workforce. In fact the capitalism of that period, still
dominant, was based on an evolution of landlord medieval system, just moved to
industrial business.Social security just organized the paternalism of
concentrated capitalism, and crony business associated. It is dying slowly.
Today what taylorization, steam engine and factory machine, schools and big
companies, have solved can be solved by IT, mobile apps, social network, MOOC.
What the very imperfect and uninnovative company Uber have started is allowing
anyone with goodwill to be a capitalist, be a shareholder, and investor, an
independent worker.When they will be "replaced" by botcars, what the society
should organized is to transform them in bot company shareholders, and not in
unemployed victims.
never forget that if a bot can create value for nothing, the value is there.
at last people will pay the small manual works much higher , because what a
human can do manually will be valued much more than what a thousands of bots
can do for no cost.
just helping the mummy that manage a bot company to cross the street may make
her pay you by the value 1 year of taxi (costing nothing for her) that could
also feed you for 6 month of hydroponic food, 1 visit of le Louvre with a Mooc,
or... getting some help by your neighbour.
we should realize that today the hour of work of most people allows to pay much
more food, much more kilometer of travel, than before.
I don't feel than robots will change anything more than before.at best it may
just push local capitalism.
current troubled situation for me is just the old way to think the world
opposing to the revolution, refusing African style home capitalism, defending
smoking 19th century big capitalism, defending economic rents of some elite
(not the 1% by income, much wider elite defined by networking and lobbying
capacity).
