Automation ends individual output measurement and the wage system built on it
Evidence
“Automation in its largest sense means, in effect, the end of measurement of work.… With automation, you can’t measure output of a single man; you now have to measure simply equipment utilization. If that is generalized as a kind of concept … there is no longer, for example, any reason at all to pay a man by the piece or pay him by the hour,” that is to say, there is no more reason to keep up the “dual pay system” of salaries and wages.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 180
Categorization
- XREF: Miller’s quoted claim that industrialization originated in the measurement of work connects to the attention-economy thesis that quantifiable metrics enable control of labor. — connects to: Automation qualitatively alters dead versus living labor and surplus value — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 179; Automation makes individual output measurement and surplus-value theory obsolete. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 179; Automated production grounds a value theory beyond measurable labor time — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 198 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Automation makes individual output measurement and surplus-value theory obsolete.
#corroborates(0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 179 - Automated production grounds a value theory beyond measurable labor time
#expands(0.90) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 198 - Full automation is incompatible with capitalist private exploitation of labor
#expands(0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 197