One of the (many) fatal flaws of capitalism is the inverse relationship between efficiency and employment. As technology improves and workers become more productive, it takes less labor to produce enough goods for all of society. This would be a good thing, except it creates unemployment. Technological improvements cause unemployment. Clearly, the solution is not to remove technology. We must change our economic system to reward technological boosts.
It is the very success of capitalism (greater efficiency, raised productivity etc) which produces unemployment, rendering more and more workers useless: what should be a blessing – less hard labour needed – becomes a curse. Or, to put it differently, the chance to be exploited in a long-term job is now experienced as a privilege.
- Slavoj Žižek
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This is exactly why the argument that capitalism brings us technological advancement is such nonsense. The technological...
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