Screenshot/Vimeo Amidst the current debate over the benefits and dangers of automation, one has to recall what Karl Marx had said almost two hundred years ago, in an era when machines, just like today, were threatening to take over millions of jobs. In his analysis of capitalism, Marx found that the value of a commodity, which he called exchange value, was primarily generated by a prior commodification of living human labour. It is living labour, Marx found, which primarily generates value.
Machines might be better at producing and manufacturing objects, but it is living labour which produces the value that […]
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