Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in fact robots make the value of the worker increase, as it always have. > It is continuous substitution of work by capital. > This cannot go on indefinitely. Sooner or later you run out of work. > washing machine makes the value of the laundry worker be higher, as he > exploits capital invested in a machine. > There are no laundry workers anymore! Practically no one makes a living washing clothes. > 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 future of laundry is here already. We all have our own laundry machines. The cost of the machines has fallen. No one makes a living doing laundry anymore. In the 1980s there was still laundry service in hotels in the U.S. and Japan. You put your dirty clothes in a bag and the hotel charged to clean them. Today, hotels have self-service laundry rooms with coin operated machines. This is much cheaper for the hotel guest. It is a little more work, like self-checkout lines at Lowe's hardware, or buying things on Amazon. - Jed
