To have an educated opinion from someone in contact with poors in emerging countries, I advise this article, and moer generally to follows Hernando De Soto http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hernando-de-soto/piketty-wrong-third-world_b_6751634.html
globally my position, inspired by a personal experience from western socialized society to emerging country is that the problem is not capitalisme, but lack of real free capitalism, and weak state of law. In Egypt, half of what was said to be wages, salaries, in Egypt statistics after some There is no problem about robots if the worker can own a robot. It should happen as the robots will be made by robots thus will be cheap. problems is that in many place, even USA, what de Soto called mercantilism, what some call Crony capitalism, what french call Colbertism, is the reality of pretended capitalism. Why a taxi should be afraid of losing his job if he can make his taxi work for him, and why not buy many taxi to transport many more clients for the same budget as before, but without much work ? As I understand the price of things is simply the price of work, even if the currency change around that reality (not the opposite). Energy is work, biased by taxes imposed by monopolies like when you pay oil to someone who did not cook it few millions years ago. anyway if you buy oil to the emirs, this mean that for you it saves work to make oil from whale oil or from corn. The price you pay to the emirs is just below the price of that work you don't pay. I'm not afraid of AI, my latest AI is made by two great inventors, me and my wife, and the training phase is a job in itself... much more difficult than programming, but in fact most humans are OK with that competence. Programmes will lose their jobs, but will become just professors. the horse never put slaves on the dole, it just allowed them to be independent farmers. capitalism for all, this is the new utopia. Not easy as everywhere the lobbies of incumbent try to exploit government to shelter them from competition and poors who organized to innovate. PS: I'm just typeproofing a testimony of a tapol (Communist/leftist political prIsoners of Soeharto US backed regime in indonesia) exiled in Buru island... The irony is that the island was managed like a soviet farm, forced to make rice with no freedom ... around 72 (after some escaped following a murder of a guardian, later attributed to a battle between guardians who trafficked wood pieces) there was a reform and they allowed, like in USSR or in popular China, some private business, some currency usage , beside the soviet economy of rice as decided by the ministers. It worked and they ate better, even if the prisoner was moaning some get richer because of lucky positions... Hard to explain to someone devoted to communisme whose life was runed by pretended capitalism system, that he was starved in a communist prison system, by a crony capitalist government, and he could only eat better when it became more entrepreneur-friendly and accepted inequality rise... 2016-12-07 23:39 GMT+01:00 Daniel Rocha <danieldi...@gmail.com>: > It's a waste of time to argue with those with petite bourgeois mentality, > at least in Marxist terms, that's what I mean. > > 2016-12-07 16:12 GMT-02:00 Che <comandantegri...@gmail.com>: > >> >> I don't even know what you getting at, fella. >> >
