As technology improves, work becomes more similar in complexity and ease.
You haven’t actually done any damn work in your life, have you?
No, tankie, your fellow brain-addled bullshitters have lied to you - there is no such thing as “luxury space communism” and there never will be. A nurse’s job will never be “more similar in complexity and ease” than a miner’s. And technology doesn’t make any of this work easier - it simply adds more layers of complexity on top.
If this wasn’t mere abstraction to you - a supposed “socialist” - it wouldn’t have been necessary for me to explain it to you.
I don’t “blame” Marx for anything,
I sometimes wish Marx was still around - just to watch him kick you in the face every time one of you tankies try to lick his boots.
No, I’m a working adult, that’s actually why I started reading theory in the first place. In factories, for example, complex industrialization is homogenized into simple tasks that are repeatable and transferable, so they can be easily trained and replaced, or re-allocated to different parts of the production line. Tools like microsoft Excel are used damn near everywhere because it’s easily transferable. There’s a lot that can’t easily be taken from one job to the next, but overall the trend is towards relatively similar mechanical and mental functions in the abstract.
Compare making a chair by hand in the 1400s, and making a hammer, to how we make them today. Both are industrialized with similar functions, but woodworking and blacksmithing used to be specialized fields. On the contrary, the idea that tools only make labor more complex is absurd. The amount of skill that needed to be employed to create a chair or a hammer vs operating machinery is vastly different. This is by design, it raises profits to make people easier to replace. The new ease of work is used to compress work and get more out of fewer hours, which results in heightened strain despite simpler activities. That’s the problem with the profit motive.
If Marx were still around, he’d be laughing at you.
You haven’t actually done any damn work in your life, have you?
No, tankie, your fellow brain-addled bullshitters have lied to you - there is no such thing as “luxury space communism” and there never will be. A nurse’s job will never be “more similar in complexity and ease” than a miner’s. And technology doesn’t make any of this work easier - it simply adds more layers of complexity on top.
If this wasn’t mere abstraction to you - a supposed “socialist” - it wouldn’t have been necessary for me to explain it to you.
I sometimes wish Marx was still around - just to watch him kick you in the face every time one of you tankies try to lick his boots.
No, I’m a working adult, that’s actually why I started reading theory in the first place. In factories, for example, complex industrialization is homogenized into simple tasks that are repeatable and transferable, so they can be easily trained and replaced, or re-allocated to different parts of the production line. Tools like microsoft Excel are used damn near everywhere because it’s easily transferable. There’s a lot that can’t easily be taken from one job to the next, but overall the trend is towards relatively similar mechanical and mental functions in the abstract.
Compare making a chair by hand in the 1400s, and making a hammer, to how we make them today. Both are industrialized with similar functions, but woodworking and blacksmithing used to be specialized fields. On the contrary, the idea that tools only make labor more complex is absurd. The amount of skill that needed to be employed to create a chair or a hammer vs operating machinery is vastly different. This is by design, it raises profits to make people easier to replace. The new ease of work is used to compress work and get more out of fewer hours, which results in heightened strain despite simpler activities. That’s the problem with the profit motive.
If Marx were still around, he’d be laughing at you.