[sparkscoffee] Re: Already happens: Capitalism destroys human labor fo rce and goes to the next phase
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- Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 16:05:28 -0400 (EDT)
JS
by nature you are always looking for a scape goat to unload your bile. What the
hell does Obama have to do
with robots? Think, think, think.
Comrade B, the thinker (some might say stinker?)
-----Original Message-----
From: R George <xgeorge@xxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, May 7, 2014 1:53 pm
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Already happens: Capitalism destroys human labor fo
rce and goes to the next phase
You did not read the article which made the point that human labor is
needed less and less
now that robots/machines are on the ascendency.
This info is dated 2008.
The Jeep Toledo South plant needs just 13.57 employee-hours to assemble
a vehicle,
a significant margin over the second-place Oshawa, Ontario, Chevy
Impala/Monte Carlo plant (15.18 hours)
and third-place Oshawa Pontiac Grand Prix/Buick LaCrosse plant (16.17
hours).
Read
more:http://blogs.motortrend.com/toyota-chrysler-have-north-americas-most-efficient-plants-1859.html#ixzz3137PZlgU
Adding insult to injury to American workers are the many thousands of
jobs lost because the companies moved their
manufacturing to foreign locations. Another factor is the increasing
population.
The article points out that some of these manufacturing jobs are/will
return because robots are now so sophisticated
they can perform most any task.
RG
On 5/7/2014 9:27 AM, schalestock@xxxxxxxx wrote:
What has "already happened" is Obama's destructive economic and social
policies - not any inherent flaw in capitlism. Lets call a spade a spade
( no pun intended.)
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From: R George <xgeorge@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [sparkscoffee] Already happens: Capitalism destroys
human labor force and goes to the next phase
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 08:23:00 -0700
07 May, 2014
Already happens: Capitalism destroys human labor force and goes
to the next phase
Connecting the dots one can discover the most nightmarish
scenarios. Destructive capitalism's next phase is the total substitution
of the human labor force with robotic machines, or in other words, the
hyper-automatization. There is a process taking place right now, and no
one (or nearly no one) knows what would happen after its completion.
The true picture behind unemployment
From a latest article in PressTV:
“Did you know that there are nearly 102 million working age
Americans that do not have a job right now? And 20 percent of all
families in the United States do not have a single member that is
employed. So how in the world can the government claim that the
unemployment rate has “dropped” to '6.3 percent'?”
“Well, it all comes down to how you define who is 'unemployed'.
For example, last month the government moved another 988,000 Americans
into the 'not in the labor force' category.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/04/361323/27-million-americans-are-unemployed/
102(!) million working age Americans that do not have a job
right now? 20%(!) of all families in the US do not have a single member
that is employed? Do you find these numbers exaggerated? Maybe not, if
you read the following story by the "eye-witness" Yanis Varoufakis.
What is going on in front of our eyes?
Yanis Varoufakis in his article "What if the capital of future
doesn't need us?", describes what he saw in Austin-Texas and what that
means:
“While I was watching from my window in Austin-Texas, I saw a
big cloud of dust deep in horizon. Two days ago, I was walking in that
area and I was surprised by the view of the big factory where bulldozers
and machines were continuously working, producing the dust. From the
front side of the building under construction it was obvious that
(fortunately) they were not building a new trade center or apartment
blocks. No, it was a big industrial center.”
“Although I didn't notice it the first time, after a few seconds
I realised that something was missing from this factory: people!
Specifically, I counted three. All of them were wearing helmets and
protection suits and were located in a small office in a space outside
with a few computers, while they were covered by a tent like those used
by the army. Ten bulldozers, three cranes and more or less ten moving
tools, at least from what I could see, were moving without drivers,
operators, workers generally.”
“When I returned to my office, I went straight to find a
colleague who knows well what's going on. He informed me that the
workplace I saw, was the new factory of Apple to produce MacBook Pro. It
was true that, it was constructed through almost complete
automatization. The materials had been selected through a way with
which, the automatic machines - therefore robots connected to eachother
through a local wireless network (intranet) - to be able to construct
without human interference - even the hydraulic structure of the
building will be constructed by plumpers-robots. A factory that under
normal conditions should employ thousands of workers is functioning
with the presence of less than one hundred souls.”
“I asked him about the move of Apple to produce computers in
America, by bringing back in the US the production from China for the
first time after decades. 'How's that?' And the answer was the expected
one, although quite impressive: 'Wages are of no importance. The export
of productive processes from America to China (off-shoring) was only an
intermediate stage. The production has returned to America, but not the
jobs. The new factory of Apple, not only is constructed without American
workers' sweat, but will also produce MacBook Pro through
complete automatization, without hiring Texans. Welcome to the New,
Brave World', ended with a smile, referring obviously to the Brave New
World of Aldous Huxley.”
“When bulldozers and plumpers-robots that at this moment build
the new factory of Apple, will start to learn from eachother and
cooperate inside a robotic network, even the few jobs concerning the
operation of these robots will vanish. In case that these armies of
interconnected machine slaves belonged to everyone, thus if everyone had
the right to benefit from the goods that they produce, then no problem.
What should be done, however, in case that these machine slaves, the
capital of future, belong (like the most of today's capital) to the very
few, while at the same time most of the people do not have access in the
goods they produce and an opportunity to work for a (human) wage?”
Source: http://www.lifo.gr/team/apopseis/45702
Capital "hyperaccumulation" : Useful for the next stage
Economic crises are used to destroy big competitors and keep the
value of money high, through capital "hyperaccumulation". Capital
"hyperaccumulation", however, is also used to fund the next stage of the
destructive capitalism which is hyper-automatization.
How all these connected to the Greek experiment?
How long a society could tolerate an unemployment rate of 30% -
50% without uprising that could bring an "instability" to the system?
When unemployment rate for the young people has reached 60%? When
pensions and wages have been cut? How much the unemployment benefit
should be cut in order to allow people to survive and consume without
uprising? How many could be left totally helpless without any kind of
social benefit? How much the mainstream media propaganda affects people
in order to stay scared inside their homes without uprising?
The new nightmarish facts in Greek experiment could be proved
quite useful for the big companies that hyper-automatize production and
seek to remove the human labor costs.
Someone has to consume
The big question is: If all the production will be automatized
(even the services sector), who will consume the products? Are we going
to a model that most of the people will be receiving unemployment
benefits just to survive and consume?
In overpopulated developing countries there are huge potential
consumer tanks. Their consuming power will rise and the complete
automatization of the production there will take decades. However, the
suitable conditions should be created first, in the aged and saturated
West, in order a limit in wages to be established and the expansion of
the Western social state model to be prevented because all these things
mean an additional cost for the global economic oligarchy:
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/12/an-imaginary-dialogue-between-bosses.html
The new model could lead to a future Dystopia beyond any fantasy:
“In the middle of the pyramid, a restructured class will serve
and secure the domination of the top. Corporate executives, big
journalists, scientific elites, suppression forces. It is characteristic
that academic research is directed on the basis of the profits of big
corporations. Funding is directed increasingly to practical applications
in areas that can bring huge profits, like for example, the higher
automatization of production and therefore, the profit increase through
the restriction of jobs.”
“The base of the pyramid will be consisted by the majority of
workers in global level, with restricted wages, zero labor rights, and
nearly zero opportunities for activities other than consumption.”
“However, the most horrific thing of all will be the expansion
of the lower social level, consisted by millions of people all over
the planet, which will be left without any kind of help, dying in
extreme poverty, since the global economic elite will secure its
domination through the oversupply of labor force and consumers.
Unfortunately, already, the human life increasingly lose
value...”
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/02/a-more-simple-model-in-favor-of-1.html
Are they all, so well designed?
Probably not. One can imagine, more or less, what is being
discussed in closed rooms of economic forums and Bilderberg conferences
behind cameras, but that does not mean that the designers of the new
world order can build everything in detail.
In many cases in the past, predictions and designs of various
think tanks have failed because there is no perfect theory that can
predict everything with accuracy and include all the unexpected facts.
It is obvious that the subsection of the global economic
oligarchy in Greece, fears a possible "accident" in euro elections since
things are not going well for the traditional parties in power which
support the local capital, and this is depicted in the way that the
mainstream media propaganda culminates as we get closer to the euro
elections day.
This means that, the struggle of people against the future
Dystopia in not futile at all ...
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/05/already-happens-capitalism-destroys.html
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