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by ben_w 510 days ago
> This is simply Marxist crap

Not only but also. Adam Smith counted labour this way, along with capital and natural resources.

Until we're all rendered unemployable by AI[0], there's still human labour doing stuff in the system — the bedrock foundation for all the rest.

[0] 2^(1 + roll a D4) years? I expect it to be relevant on the timescale of me reaching pension age, but between Scylla[1] and Charybdis[2] I'm not at all certain.

[1] smoke-and-mirrors marketing

[2] exponential growth