.@marginalutility destroys "care worker shortage" myth, & exposes rhetorical role of robotics in depressing wages pic.twitter.com/AhNVlI5pZq
— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) May 7, 2016
1 Notice -- @FrankPasquale -- the perverse inversions playing out in Thought Leaders of our current neoliberal tech-discourse on job crises:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
2 Rather than a crisis in available care -- whether health, education, social services -- to be addressed by living wage/expanded welfare...
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
3 we are told "roboticization" -- figured as some natural, inevitable, autonomous modernizing technological force -- *causes* job crises.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
4 Then, assuming the guise of utopian historical protagonists, tech-talkers & CEOs insist "roboticization" be compensated by Basic Income.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
5 Not incidentally, Basic Income advocacy is usually coupled to welfare elimination/"simplification" schemes in tech discourse.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
6 In the aftermath of libertopian equity dismantlement incumbent elites are free to define "Basic" income for dis-empowered majorities...
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
7 as precarious "bare life" securing plutocratic re-feudalization already emerging in algorithmic governance & shar(ecropp)ing economy.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
8 And so, the perverse inversions announced at the outset... The futurological roboticization thesis on job crises propounds:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
9 one -- a false history decoupling automation from the context of successful attacks on organized labor to understand job crises;
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
10 two -- a false diagnosis of job crises as demanding more roboticization to provide (cheap, substandard versions) of needed services;
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
11 three -- a false proposal of vacuous abundance coupled to equity-dismantlement, the usual tech liberty of radical precarization;...
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
12 ...all to promote profitable substandard automated service provision, the arrival of AI singularity in universal artificial imbecillence.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) May 7, 2016
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