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Communism will become obsolete once automation expands. Workers can't control the means of anything when their jobs stop existing. Nobody wins the fight against technology. Luddites have been trying for centuries. I'll just run as a Republican since I don't need any qualifications to get their vote
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Marx wrote a lot about automation, there was as much worry during and shortly after the industrial revolution about there being no jobs for humans as there is today.
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@KaliKali: I know. I've read it before. But his fears where nowhere near this close to actualization. The problem now is that machines aren't being built to do simple tasks, they're being built to [i]learn[/i] complex ones. We're talking millions of jobs in the US alone