Sujet : Re: The joy of Economics
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 05. Nov 2024, 04:32:50
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 21:53:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:29:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Why would big money need workers when it has robots?
It needs consumers with sufficient income to buy its products.
Jack London was a product of his times and sometimes made simplistic
arguments but one I remember is the question of how it works if the
workers can't afford to buy back what they produce?
Like I said, simplistic, and I'm sure there is a library's worth of books
on the labor theory of value and so forth but the question always haunted
me.