It will most likely never be full automation, but if it for some reason happened, then that wouldn't be capitalism anymore, by definition since there wouldn't be any unpaid labour to steal. Funnily enough Marx noted this as the possible moment when capitalism logically come to an end, abolishing itself.
And yeah, in capitalism any moment before full automation will be exploited to make the most profits and most misery possible.
It doesn't have to come to the point of full automation. Just hollowing out enough labor that there isn't enough surplus value to overcome the rents that finance capital created over the last half century of large scale rentseeking a.k.a. neoliberalism.
Yeah, i guess Marx went to the furthest possible conclusion because he usually avoided making prophecies without knowing conditions, but it's pretty obvious that even if we ignore everything else, capitalist system will collapse way before reaching that point.
It will most likely never be full automation, but if it for some reason happened, then that wouldn't be capitalism anymore, by definition since there wouldn't be any unpaid labour to steal. Funnily enough Marx noted this as the possible moment when capitalism logically come to an end, abolishing itself.
And yeah, in capitalism any moment before full automation will be exploited to make the most profits and most misery possible.
It doesn't have to come to the point of full automation. Just hollowing out enough labor that there isn't enough surplus value to overcome the rents that finance capital created over the last half century of large scale rentseeking a.k.a. neoliberalism.
Yeah, i guess Marx went to the furthest possible conclusion because he usually avoided making prophecies without knowing conditions, but it's pretty obvious that even if we ignore everything else, capitalist system will collapse way before reaching that point.
'Abolishing itself' into a 'cloud of sexless hydrogen' tho.
Or cruelty squad.