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Ya'll need Mises.

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 No.97630

Has there been any libertarian discussion on the future of automation, and what it has in store for labor, and the workplace? I remember economists talking about how the gig-economy was going to be the future of work as labor becomes more automated.

 No.97631

Most people worried about automation seem to be upset that useless jobs that produce nothing are going to be eliminated. Some fat single mother of three mulattoes getting fired because she is no longer needed to sit at a call center and read a script or push buttons when people make orders at a fast food restaurant is no problem at all. If these people really are incapable of integrating any sort of productive skill, they frankly do not deserve to live.

If we're talking about actual wealth-producing jobs I cannot see why anyone could see it as a bad thing. If a bread factory is somehow able to produce vast quantities of bread with only one technician monitoring the equipment, bread is obviously going to drop in price immensely. And what about the poor bread workers? See above. If they cannot produce anything they do not deserve anything. This isn't a bad thing. Humanity needs to be subject to evolution again. If automation ramps up the way we are expecting the intelligence of humanity will steadily increase as the skilless low-intelligence savages are removed from the population pool.


 No.97639

It's gonna be lit. It already is.

I have a job driving a monorail, and I literally just click the button (usually) and it does everything itself.


 No.97642

>>97639

>>97631

I was hoping for sources from libertarian institutions like Reason, or the Mises institute.


 No.97652

>>97642

Well the main argument from Mises institute for free trade and automation is that when prices of products go down because automation or free trade consumers and capitalists (businessmen) will have more money to spend. With the more money to spend it creates jobs in other sectors. The consumer will spend money in more areas with the money they are saving thus creating new jobs.

>https://mises.org/wire/why-robots-wont-cause-mass-unemployment

>https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Automation

>Also Chapter 7 of Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt




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