Capital will never stop pursuing cheaper labor. Sometimes ‘innovation’ is in direct pursuit of cheaper labor (Uber,eg) and sometimes it facilitates cheaper labor (music streaming, eg).
Very occasionally, innovation is a pure creative effort, but even then capital will rush to exploit new technologies as a means to lower labor cost. Most of us have lost the thread on the inescapable tension between capital and labor.
Capital will never stop pursuing cheaper labor. Sometimes ‘innovation’ is in direct pursuit of cheaper labor (Uber,eg) and sometimes it facilitates cheaper labor (music streaming, eg).
Very occasionally, innovation is a pure creative effort, but even then capital will rush to exploit new technologies as a means to lower labor cost. Most of us have lost the thread on the inescapable tension between capital and labor.
The Luddites were right.
We should have listened to them! They would have seen Uber coming from a mile away.
I think I read a piece about Luddite communities among young people and I was like, "THE KIDS GET IT"