| > As we move into a more virtual world What will you eat? Where will you live? Who will tend to you when you're ill? We could lose all this virtual stuff overnight and the world would be much like before, it's funny how things are all different and yet nothing changes. Facebook could disappear and you'd likely never notice (unless you happened to hold stock). But someone still has to grow crops, build houses, produce the goods we use and someone still has to know how to set bones and how to apply stitches. The virtual world is mostly a first world luxury, if not an outright illusion. Work will always be connected to sweat labour, maybe not directly but it will be very hard to get rid of that factor in a sustainable manner. Capitalism is not failing, it is simply adapting to a new situation. And Communism didn't crumble because labour as value stopped making sense, we simply have never had communism, only a bunch of people using it as a fig leaf to cover up their crimes. |
Ubiquitous surveillance and a swarm of drones doing policing probably is as effective as most law enforcement is. I don't like it though... but not liking something does not make it less effective.
In the new world, the value of sweat is falling, but the value of each person's time is improving.