Full automation is incompatible with capitalist private exploitation of labor

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

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: modern platform capitalism seems to have found ways to keep full automation from undercutting exploitation — or has it? Contradicts or complicates Marcuse’s 1964 scenario.
• XREF: connects to: Technical progress may become incompatible with industrialization’s own institutions. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 183; Automation makes individual output measurement and surplus-value theory obsolete. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 179; Capitalist-worker exchange is formally equal but substantively unequal — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1365 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism must preserve labor as profit source despite its potential abolition #qualifies (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 240
• Automation makes individual output measurement and surplus-value theory obsolete. #expands (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 179
• Capitalist-worker exchange is formally equal but substantively unequal #expands (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1365