They said the same thing with they invented the combine harvester and
the steam engine, etc..
Think of all the Chinese laundrymen that were displaced by the washing
machine.
-RR
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From: R George
Sent: May 7, 2014 9:23 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients@null, null@null
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Already happens: Capitalism destroys human
labor force and goes to the next phase
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
"When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer"
- Stevie Wonder "Superstition"
