Illusions Lost - An Elegy in Three Parts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798653443602)

200 years ago David Ricardo - that great advocate of free trade to exploit the wealth-enhancing benefits of comparative advantage - admitted the Luddites were right. Replacing paid workers with unpaid machines permanently reduces the need for human workers and renders the human population "redundant" to the owners of the machines. {David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Chapter XXXI On Machinery (1817)}Today we are approaching the logical conclusion of that process. Here's what it looks like.

Author: Derryl Hermanutz
ISBN-13: 9798653443602
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2020
Pages: 62
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d