Pathfinders: Keep It Simple, Stupid

[jondwhite]

Another article on the same subjecthttp://libcom.org/blog/fully-automated-luxury-communism-utopian-critique-14062015

[PJShannon]

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[ALB]

Not a bad article in libcom, actually.

[Young Master Smeet]

Really not sure about this:

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Here we should also take into account the gendered aspect of the conceptions of work that is being used. What is being focused on is the abolition of work in terms of privileged ‘male’ forms of industrial and ‘productive’ work, whilst the female dominated ‘private’ work of care and social reproduction which is harder to eliminate is largely overlooked insofar as it is even acknowledged as work at all. Thus in taking its technological underpinnings directly from the late capitalist present luxury communism seems in danger of also continuing its basis in gender oppression.

Labour saving devices in the home have been a big part of the story of automation, robots and virtual people would be able to take on a great many "care" functions.  Automation in hospitals is in full swing.  When nanotech clothes clean themselves, monitor our health signs and talk to expert diagnostic systems (and even talk to us) it will save social reproduction labour.

[alanjjohnstone]

And those sex-dolls are verging on reality i am told too http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=53372&sid=d70c7dca55c10fcec8e8cbae5e9da3b0&start=15

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[alanjjohnstone]

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