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by hx87 3605 days ago
Every year labor is becoming less and less necessary for economic production and capital is becoming a better and better substitute for labor, so our economies /are/ capital-bound.
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Judging by prices, we have gluts of both labor and capital, a systemic shortage of aggregate private and public demand, and yet consistently increasing employment and rock-bottom productivity growth. To me it seems like cheap labor is being used to substitute for capital.