"Maxprop" wrote

..... As to a love of socialism, I believe only you fall into that
category. Rational, intelligent people (all the rest of humanity) don't
buy
into such a falacious socioeconomic system.

The Craft system gave way to the Guild system when advancing technology made
crafts to difficult for one to learn on his own. Then the Guild system
morphed into capitalism when advancing technology made tools too expensive
for individual craftsmen to own. And advancing technology has been eating
away at Capitalism for nearly a century. Automation gradually replaces the
workers who both create and consume products, but what happens when
automation replaces them all? They cannot buy without wages and there can be
no profits without sales; so capitalism will collapse. Question is, what
will replace it? Socialism? Communism? Something new? The only thing
that's certain is that automation will bit by bit destroy our existing
system. Even burger-flipping will get automated. Then what will all the MBAs
do?