Software automation and it's role in the economic collapse

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by phrostbyte

Total communism is the natural economic endgame of total automation.

HOWEVER, it's not a discrete progression. We are not going to go from 100% to 0% employment overnight. Instead, should automation continue, there will be a general decrease is the need for human labor. Even in this case, the free market falls apart. A government is necessary to ensure, at worst, a distribution of wealth, or at best of distribution of labor. So what you will see is more government involvement in the economy, and it manifests itself in the tweaking and adoption of labor laws, and the increase in fundings for social services or government institutions. This has been happening for the past 100 years already, and I believe technological progression is a big reason why.

Since no one will embrace ignorance:

1 a: a theory advocating elimination of private property b: a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed2capitalized a: a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics b: a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production c: a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably d: communist systems collectively

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism

The advancement of machinery will still continue to grow. Mix that with the true definition of communism and it doesn't remove automation at all but instead embraces whatever means necessary to distribute equitably. It's a Utopia that contradicts human nature in so many ways from wanting to be leaders to just wanting to be left alone.