Even REINDEER being replaced by automation? Buh bye Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen … and, of course, Rudolph.
Of course, the real threat to jobs by automation is only a problem in unregulated capital markets.
The increased productivity gains (wealth creation) from automation and the resulting increased leisure time could potentially be a tremendous social good that benefits everyone with greater wealth and more free time to enjoy it in, but only in an economic system structured for equitable distribution of those gains.
For this to occur, public administration is required, either in the form of significant public oversight of private capital markets or some degree of socialization.
When the productive resources and the wealth they create are concentrated in the hands of a very few wealthy plutocrats in an unregulated capital market, automation further concentrates and cements their economic and political elitism, exponentially increasing wealth inequality.
Ultimately, this is where the struggle for greater income equality must receive greater attention.
“If the whole class of the wage-labourer were to be annihilated by machinery, how terrible that would be for capital, which, without wage-labour, ceases to be capital!”
This smugly circular quote that fingers capital’s counter intuitive enslavement to labor is taken from the 1847 essay “Wage Labour and Capital”, a twenty-year precursor and prefiguring of Das Capital; it speaks to the awkward and venerable slow-dance between Labor and the Boss-man, specifically the latter’s unswerving determination to exploit surplus value until it ends in the annihilation of all parties.
1847? The date is meaningless…THE SAME THOUGHT PROCESSES are still working overtime to eliminate the need for paid labour. Greed will never be eliminated.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
Eight tiny reindeer? No, eight tiny propellers. (Good show, Rodolfo.)
DD Wiz Premium Member over 5 years ago
Even REINDEER being replaced by automation? Buh bye Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen … and, of course, Rudolph.
Of course, the real threat to jobs by automation is only a problem in unregulated capital markets.
The increased productivity gains (wealth creation) from automation and the resulting increased leisure time could potentially be a tremendous social good that benefits everyone with greater wealth and more free time to enjoy it in, but only in an economic system structured for equitable distribution of those gains.
For this to occur, public administration is required, either in the form of significant public oversight of private capital markets or some degree of socialization.
When the productive resources and the wealth they create are concentrated in the hands of a very few wealthy plutocrats in an unregulated capital market, automation further concentrates and cements their economic and political elitism, exponentially increasing wealth inequality.
Ultimately, this is where the struggle for greater income equality must receive greater attention.
noktar Premium Member over 5 years ago
no red nose anymore
PO' DAWG over 5 years ago
Drones made in China.
mourdac Premium Member over 5 years ago
The big guy is next when the Santa robot is working.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Karl Marx:
“If the whole class of the wage-labourer were to be annihilated by machinery, how terrible that would be for capital, which, without wage-labour, ceases to be capital!”
This smugly circular quote that fingers capital’s counter intuitive enslavement to labor is taken from the 1847 essay “Wage Labour and Capital”, a twenty-year precursor and prefiguring of Das Capital; it speaks to the awkward and venerable slow-dance between Labor and the Boss-man, specifically the latter’s unswerving determination to exploit surplus value until it ends in the annihilation of all parties.
kfccanada over 5 years ago
1847? The date is meaningless…THE SAME THOUGHT PROCESSES are still working overtime to eliminate the need for paid labour. Greed will never be eliminated.