The article “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” argues that
with work being done by machinery, the society would be able to function closer
to a communist economy because essentially
there would be a more collective control regarding work load and division of labor. I think this idea is not only
unrealistic in practice but also potentially socially damaging. The article
even uses the phrase “utopian demand” before proposing their FCLA idea; giving
the sense that their proposal would only flourish in a perfect world, which we
do not have. Also, creating a society that relies solely on the function and
productive work of machines would ultimately lead to the decrease of human
productivity/work ethic, fundamental factors that we as a society originally attributed to obtaining the American Dream. Bastani, a FALC scientist mentioned in the
article, even states “There may be some work that
will still need to be done by humans, like quality control, but it would be
minimal”. The decrease of work required will also lead to a decrease in the
average person’s desire to fill these position due to the feel of a reliance on
the machines to complete the work; an occurrence we have seen in the past with
the uprising of “smart” technology. So though in a utopian society Fully
Automated Luxury Communism would be very much a possibility, in reality there
is very little possibility in it prospering.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I believe that "FALC", is trying to fabricate a perfect world from a not so perfect one. I believe that technology is a part of our world now, but i don't think that it should take over our lives. I think its idealistic that we could have technology do all the work for us. I think it would be morally wrong for us to try and turn the world into what FALC wishes for the future.
ReplyDeleteI would have to disagree because once machines and robots do the work that us humans don’t want to do then they can go out in search of a new job. Maybe this will let people do what their heart desires. I also disagree because it would not lower humans work ethic because it would take a bit of work to come up with these machines/robots and these machines would ultimately help us with the work we do. These machines could do a little bit of work so we can spend our time working on something else that relates to our line of work so we can somehow multitask but instead of doing more than one thing we would be focusing on one item of business while the machine/robot could work on the other. This would help us get our work done in a more efficient manner. Most machines and robots can already do our work faster but the quality of their work will be much better. Plus employers would enjoy having robots or machines do the work because they would do the work without getting paid. So the extra money being saved could go towards other things such as improvements related to the job, or it could benefit the employees by raising their pay.
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