izentrop wrote:Ahmed wrote:The logic of automation is the exclusion of humanity
Your metaphysics is beyond me.
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I can see the bottom of your thoughts, but isn't that "throwing the baby out with the bathwater"?
The logic of automation is profit, sometimes survival of the company in global competition.
This results in the exclusion of humans effectively, on spots that are not necessarily pleasant and rewarding.
is it wrong?
In my opinion, no.
If we continue this trend, there will only be one more rewarding task entrusted to humans.
Pushing to the extreme, humans will have nothing more to do to ensure their production / recycling of goods and services.
is it not a dream to be free from material contingencies?
This is what all Loto players aspire to, the good life without constraint.
Basically we all have this aspiration within us.
The problem is that currently the right to live is conditioned by income, itself conditioned by work.
There is a problem with the automation experienced like today!
A problem that can be resolved in 2 seconds, if "we" decide, but "we" do not seem decided to separate the right to live, from work.
However, this is what automation is leading us to, despite itself
(this is not its primary purpose, the primary purpose of automation being financial profit or survival in ... financial competition.
Moreover, "finance", everything that revolves around money, being an abstraction and not a physical quantity.
We don't do what we want with physics, with an abstraction, you have to see ...)
Until we make up our minds, the economic transition does not take place and is very painful for those excluded from work, and often even included.
Afterwards we will ask the metaphysical questions of the meaning of life more cruelly.
is this bad?
in my opinion, no!