More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production

Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production by zxcmx on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:13AM (#14298445)

We totally do throw spaghetti at the wall and call the results an "economic system".

Neither "capitalism", "communism" nor "socialism" exist except as ill described definitions and abstractions that are misused and abused by academics, politicians and the general public alike.

The actual systems we have are a patchwork of contradictory laws, policies and actions by a ton of different parties.

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Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production by djschnei on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:55AM (#14299994)

ok, guys. You win. Individuals don't look at public economic policy through ideological lenses and these ideological lenses certainly don't have loosely definable goals. A capitalist and a socialist ideologue, while advocating for public policy, definitely don't have a desired state they are shooting for.

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Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production by zxcmx on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:37AM (#14300356)

I apologise, I think I ended up talking past you.

When you wrote "economic systems" I read that as a statement about actual economies instead of what you actually wrote.

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Re:More Robots, Fewer Jobs: capital vs. labor in production by djschnei on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:56AM (#14300537)

No worries, don't think I said "system" in my original comment, enough blame to go around :)

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