tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post4327213870249876882..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: Who Will Do The Dirty Work ?Poetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-68666928369578038372015-01-22T17:51:59.444+00:002015-01-22T17:51:59.444+00:00Labor-saving technology is not only useful to repl...Labor-saving technology is not only useful to replace the so-considered dirty tasks, but also the hard ones, which are performed sometimes by skilled workers. Even intellectual labor can be done by machinery (this is already happening today under the chains, impositions and rules of the capitalist system - some very complex mathematical calculations that were once only performed by engineers and mathematicians can now be resolved by computer programs, which are also useful to do many design works that designers used to perform by themselves back then and there are many other circumstances in which technology is constructive to accelerate or even replace intellectual labor). Technology use's goal must be to drive up productivity and save as much labor as possible, so humanity will be able to focus on the development of other elements of social life. That doesn't mean people won't have to work, but they'll work towards different collective aspirations, completely apart from the capitalist mode of production.<br />I know how hard it is to imagine and rationalize a totally new routine constituted of a dynamics that sounds strange to most of us, who have been trained from birth to follow the logic of capitalism. But as retrace our society model, we will build new modes of life that are compatible with our goals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com