The Two Futures Of Automation: Capitalism VS Socialism

With jobs being automated and handed off to machines at an ever-increasing pace, it's only natural to consider what our future will look like. Will humans have more free time to spend with loved ones? More time to pursue hobbies and fulfilling activities? Or will the status quo prevail, leaving us to work increasingly meaningless jobs for the sake of squeezing every penny of profit out of human life? Let's talk about two possible futures of automation.

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Citations and Further Reading:

Robots
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/09/26/could-these-ai-robots-replace-farmers-and-make-agriculture-more-sustainable
https://time.com/5556339/artificial-intelligence-robots-medicine/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/amazon-warehouse-reports-show-worker-injuries/602530/
https://www.gppi.net/2019/04/24/automation-and-the-future-of-work-in-sub-saharan-africa
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/are-robots-competing-for-your-job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Theory
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3104202 (available with a free account)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

The Industrial Revolution
https://www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-Revolution
https://www.britannica.com/technology/automation

Statistics
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blog/automation-and-the-future-of-work-understanding-the-numbers/
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