Automation, Capitalisms Mismanagement of it, and an Argument for Communism - A Series on Automation Part 2
One of the most undeniably insidious aspects of modern Capitalism is the way it handles automation. It takes something that should be improving all of our lives by raising production, cutting working hours for equivalent pay, and raising wages overall, in a move towards a better world, and hideously deforms it into the bane of the working class. When the worker asks for an increase in wages (a fair request given the increased productivity of the age) is automation not one of the first things they are threatened with? Has the worker seen an honest to God decline in hours for equal pay since the actions of the original labor movement? If anything their position has been made more precarious, the average hours the worker toils has increased, and the standard of living declined. And what does the media shriek at the working classes? “More labour! More exhaustion!” It cries relentlessly. This utter disfigurement of what should be a key instrument in humanities salvation into one of it’s worst enemies for the enrichment of the privileged Capitalist class is but another damning reason for the abolition of Capitalism and the institution of Communism. A system capable of utilizing automation to a superior end. In cutting working hours and raising the standard of living for all. In creating a better world!
(This is part two of a series. Part three should be released shortly and afterwards they will all be compiled into a master post)
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