Automation that ends scarcity would force progress to change direction entirely

Evidence

It seems that automation to the limits of technical possibility is incompatible with a society based on the private exploitation of human labor power in the process of production. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 197 (#expands, via linked claim)

I submit that such a new direction of technical progress would be the catastrophe of the established direction, not merely the quantitative evolution of the prevailing (scientific and technological) rationality but rather its catastrophic transformation, the emergence of a new idea of Reason, theoretical and practical. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 802 (#expands, via linked claim)

It would be a mistake to think that automatization is in itself automatic. Organizing the relinquishing of political subjectivity now becomes the main task of that subjectivity itself. In this mode of domination, which proceeds by converting its orders into programs and its agents into automata, the power, already set at a distance, renders itself impossible to seize upon. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 650 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Qualitative change would catastrophically transform prevailing technical rationality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 802; Full automation is incompatible with capitalist private exploitation of labor — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 197; Automation requires active human work to organize the relinquishing of subjectivity — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 650 (+3 more)

Related

• Complete automation of necessity labor would free time for genuine self-constitution (similarity 0.86)
• Full automation is incompatible with capitalist private exploitation of labor (similarity 0.85)
• Automation makes individual output measurement and surplus-value theory obsolete. (similarity 0.84)
• Technical progress becomes a liberating force only beyond automated material necessity (similarity 0.84)
• Automation qualitatively alters dead versus living labor and surplus value (similarity 0.83)
• Automation requires active human work to organize the relinquishing of subjectivity (similarity 0.82)
• Automation made the autonomist zero-work dream materially possible yet unrealised. (similarity 0.82)
• Technical progress may become incompatible with industrialization’s own institutions. (similarity 0.80)
• Machine mastery perpetuates rather than ends enslavement (similarity 0.80)
• Automated production shifts wealth creation from labor time to scientific knowledge (similarity 0.79)
• Automation ends individual output measurement and the wage system built on it (similarity 0.79)
• Labor opposition to automation can itself reactivate class conflict by weakening capital (similarity 0.79)
• Automation and AI are designed to eliminate laborers rather than liberate them. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Full automation is incompatible with capitalist private exploitation of labor #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 197
• Qualitative change would catastrophically transform prevailing technical rationality #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 802
• Automation requires active human work to organize the relinquishing of subjectivity #expands (0.72) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 650