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In a kind of counter intuitive argument in this article in The Wall Street Journal , Uber drivers may now have to battle with the fact that no human is actually telling them what to do. Most of the tasks are now being automated. The study by Researchers at the Data and Society research institute at New York University point out that Uber uses software to exert similar control over workers that a human manager would.
The world looks more and more like the Manna short story, where every aspect of our employee life is used to classify our performance. Another interesting discussion point: Is the middle manager role disappearing?
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday November 06 2015, @05:12AM
I think getting people to do what work is needed isn't the hard part, because automation. The hard part is getting those in power to not hoard the results but instead give food and shelter freely to people who don't have any work of value to do.
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(Score: 2) by Murdoc on Friday November 06 2015, @09:49AM
Then it's a good thing that in a Technocracy:
1) There is no power to abuse.
2) Right to consume is a guaranteed basic right of citizenship.
3) There is no "private property", making hoarding difficult.
4) The entire point of Technocracy is "To produce an abundance of goods and services for all citizens for the longest period possible." Thus limiting anyone artificially would be against the point.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday November 06 2015, @10:06PM
And that is why Technocracies only exist in fiction. Someone will have control of the means of production, and therefore have power.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek