Fully automated luxary communism

Fully automated luxury communism or FALC is aiming towards replacing humans and having machines do the work instead. In Erik Brynjolfsson's view "A world of increasing abundance, even luxury, is not only possible, but likely... Many of the things we consider to be necessities today- phone service, automobiles, Saturdays off- were luxuries of the past." The essence of Brynjolfsson's statement is that our society will continue to technologically advance its inevitable. I agree that our world will continue to technologically advance because of how many technological advances we have as of 2015. Take cellphones, for example, as time has passed they have developed into something so technologically advanced that, as Brynjolfsson points, is something we use to see as a luxury, but in today society is something we need to have. As time passes technology is something that will continue to grow and advance, and the thought of having robots that do the work for us is something I can see happening.

Fully automated luxury communism is the belief that machines take over the work force and do the hard work while employment no longer exists. Bastani says "There is a tendency in capitalism to automate labor, to turn things previously done by humans into automated functions." Meaning everything a person can do a machine built can do better than a human and eventually replace him or her. I agree that everything done by humans has been turned into an automated function because now a days you don't even have to type you just speak and the computer or phone does it for you.

smart, lazy humans

"the robots are coming for our jobs" this is one of the sentence that most caught my attention in the article "fully automated luxury communism", in my opinion, the meaning of this, is that we humans, have advanced in technology so quick that when we expect the least, that same technology that we've created, is going to take control over all the things we use to do, for example, our jobs. Now a days, we see and use technology almost on everything, new computers, new phone, new everything. All of this creations are intent to help us out in our daily basis, in other words, to make our lives easier, but the biggest consequence we are getting out of our hard work, is that we are becoming lazy, and in the future, we are not the ones that are going to control the world, our new machines are.


Another thing that terrifies me, is that humans are going to be useless, we are all going to cut our hours of work to maybe 10-12 per week, because a machine is going to be doing our job, having said this, I do not know where are we going to get the money to sustain our families from, or what is going to happen with our lives; yes maybe we are going to have more free time, but as where I know, humans are not used to that.

 

I Fame

I really believe in this article, we are depending too much on technology, we are lost when the power goes out because even our houses are nothing but technology. Nobody uses gas stoves anymore and that is not good when it comes to power outages, to be able to use anything everyone needs a plug for just 8 hours of life when batteries give you months of life. Our greatest creations will be the end of us, and we need to get back out there and stick with what we know. We can't rely on jammed mechanical pencils we need to rely on wooden pencils, we can't rely on the flashlights on our phones we need to rely actual flashlights. We are advancing so fast that when it comes to needing to use a house phone nobody is going to know how.

Lazy Luxury

The online article discussed the problem with the want for luxury versus the reality of what you already have in life. People are becoming lazy as time goes by and I believe this is because the people who are discovering new ideas and producing new technologies are not thinking about how their decision will impact the newer generations to come up. Robots are becoming more common in the world and they are placed in every available field that is open. A hover board, for example, is making people lazy. People who own one of these is more likely to ride down a ramp or an elevator rather than taking the stairs. They are less likely to get the exercise they need but will continue to use these hover boards because of the temporary fame and praise of the object. In luxury, people will expect more but perform less depending on how they feel about their job. They will let the machines do all the work and sit back until the machine needs to be restocked or a jam has occurred. 

IRobot

Brian Merchant, a senior editor of Motherboard and VICE science and technology channel had a goal in life. In my opinion what Brian Merchant tried doing is just taking away job opportunities for the blue collar workers. In this article it says, "The robots, they say, are coming for our jobs." Knowing that the robots can't work a white collar jobs and the technically speaking most blue collar workers are not as wealthy as the white collar workers. Therefore, if robots do take over our jobs it'll be the blue collar workers. At the the same time it can be helpful, but also it can be a controversy about the robots taking away our jobs. Even though Brian is trying to make our society easier, but he has to be universal and think more outside the box.

Quote Sandwich

Brian Merchant, a senior editor of VICE, wrote an article about Aaron Bastani’s view of work being done by non-humans. Merchant talks about how Bastani and other luxury communist see a post work society, “where machines do the heavy lifting not for the profit but for the people.” (Merchant). In other words, Bastani believes that this technological development of machines working for humans is a perfect vision for a post work society. He believes that replacing humans with machines will reduce the amount of work that is required by humans to do. Although I agree with Bastani up to a point I cannot accept his suggestion that automation will replace wage labor in society, especially those who are hard driven and motivated to work hard their long hours.