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Re: Runaway help desks

Title: RE: [PEN-L] Runaway help desks

Seth Sandronsky writes:
The Home Depot example you mention is striking.  I noticed it a month or
so ago in Sacramento.  We are seeing the rise of dead labor (machinery) and the demise of living labor (people).


worse, from the perspective of the US and other rich countries, the machinery is more and more made outside the country, so that machine-producing jobs aren't produced inside the country.

But Marx pointed to a counter-acting force: if not enough jobs are created, that depresses wages, discouraging further mechanization (for awhile). Not a happy story.

Jim

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