
David Harvey (@davidharvey.org)
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
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Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Revolt and Recession - The Global Crisis of Higher Education and Work
YouTubecould be deployed in such a way that basic necessities could be taken care of maybe by people working three days a week and that the rest of the time, the other four days a week, they could do what they damn well please and be free. [6/8]
Now there are various ways in which you can talk about socialism, but the one which I like most of all about Marx is that socialism is about free time and creation of more and more free time and you would think artificial intelligence... [5/8]
And this then comes back also to the question, what is it that might be the significance in terms of what a socialist answer to this may be? [4/8]
and minimize the actual wage rate, which people will soon see. And we will find that the situation instead of becoming better as you would think would happen with artificial intelligence, becomes worse. [3/8]
We may have the same story. If capital is responsible for the way in which artificial intelligence is going to be deployed, it's going to mean that actually capital is going to reap all the advantages and it's going to use it to maximize the surplus value extraction... [2/8]