200 years ago David Ricardo - that great advocate of free trade to exploit the wealth-enhancing benefits of comparative advantage - admitted the Luddites were right. Replacing paid workers with unpaid machines permanently reduces the need for human workers and renders the human population "redundant" to the owners of the machines. {David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Chapter XXXI On Machinery (1817)}
Today we are approaching the logical conclusion of that process. Here's what it looks like.
200 years ago David Ricardo - that great advocate of free trade to exploit the wealth-enhancing benefits of comparative advantage - admitted the Luddites were right. Replacing paid workers with unpaid machines permanently reduces the need for human workers and renders the human population "redundant" to the owners of the machines. {David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Chapter XXXI On Machinery (1817)}
Today we are approaching the logical conclusion of that process. Here's what it looks like.
Illusions Lost: An Elegy in Three Parts
Illusions Lost: An Elegy in Three Parts
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940164124410 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Derryl Hermanutz |
| Publication date: | 06/13/2020 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 199 KB |