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According to
world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the rising use of automated
machines may mean the end of human rights – not just jobs. But he’s
not talking about robots with artificial intelligence taking over the
world, he’s talking about the current capitalist political system
and its major players.
On Reddit,
Hawking said that the economic gap between the rich and the poor will
continue to grow as more jobs are automated by machines, and the
owners of said machines hoard them to create more wealth for
themselves.
The
insatiable thirst for capitalist accumulation bestowed upon humans by
years of lies and terrible economic policy has affected technology in
such a way that one of its major goals has become to replace human
jobs.
If we do not
take this warning seriously, we may face unfathomable corporate
domination. If we let the same people who buy and sell our political
system and resources maintain control of automated technology, then
we’ll be heading towards a very harsh reality.
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Having
secured the new labor force through fully automated machines, what
has left for the dominant elite now, is to take all the resources.
Big corporations are grabbing huge cultivable areas especially in
the developing countries in order to control food production.
Oil
and natural gas fields in many areas of the planet are already
controlled by big private corporations, ...
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Hawking's
note from the discussion on Reddit:
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If
machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on
how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious
leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people
can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby
against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be
toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing
inequality.
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Professor
Hawking is absolutely right. The problem is not automation itself,
but the system under which is being developed. The obsolete
Capitalism is being used - by the elites who have the economic power
- as an intermediate tool to the new Dark Ages of modern Feudalism
through which they will take total control of everything. Under such
a Dystopian scenery, technology will be used to secure the dominance
of the few, instead of improving the lives of billions.
The worse of
all, is that Western societies have been 'compromised' with a culture
according to which we can't have a better society out of Capitalism.
It is a culture expressed by the myth of Thatcherian 'There Is No
Alternative', or, Fukuyama's 'End of History'. This culture has been
planted deeply in the Western thought especially in the last one
hundred years, and became a building block of the Western
neo-rationalism.
This culture
has generated the destructive neoliberalism, which the elites are
using as intermediate stage, destroying everything that the majority
has conquered against them, over the past decades. The elites are
breaking the social contract with the majority, exactly because they
don't need human labor anymore. Societies are still living inside the
'Matrix' of this culture. They appear to be unable to liberate
themselves, break the chains and fight for their lives.
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