full-automation
The chapter discusses how automation is increasingly replacing human labor across industries, leading towards a post-scarcity economy where work is decoupled from survival.
2 chapters across 2 books
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto (2019)Aaron Bastani
Part II of 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism' explores the transformative potential of full automation, limitless energy, and resource abundance to achieve post-scarcity conditions. It traces historical and contemporary shifts in labor due to automation, the rise of renewable energy sources like solar and wind, and emerging prospects in space mining and private space industry, arguing these technological advances can dismantle scarcity and reshape economic and social relations.
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015)Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
Chapter 6 of 'Inventing the Future' outlines a vision for a post-work society centered on fully automating the economy to liberate humanity from drudgery and reduce work. It argues for non-reformist reforms that are utopian yet grounded in current technological trends, emphasizing the acceleration of automation as a political project to break beyond neoliberalism. The chapter traces historical and contemporary shifts in labor markets due to automation and highlights the transformative potential and challenges of the latest wave of algorithmic and robotic technologies.