Slowly, carefully – how to halt technological unemployment

Accelerationism. The thought of continuous technological momentum, civilizational advancement at all costs. erstwhile a modest heroine of niche symposia of futurists, where they boldly started with it, but never removed beyond the contractual brackets of academic discourse.

Today it becomes more than a thought experiment. From an ugly duckling of modern doctrine it transforms into a completely real social, political and economical perspective. It transforms into a being so clear that it dims alternate ideas for the present function of technology.

Our current regular regular is based on a nervous, hyper-intense acceleration rate. Behind a rapidly evolving online culture, whether artificial intelligence is able to keep up – neither society nor the law that sets the conditions for the functioning of that society.

A widespread aspiration of the explanation of eternal civilizational advancement can lead to possibly the most severe of problems of approaching modernity, i.e. technological unemployment.

It can lead to people losing their jobs to the robotized workforce.

The Accelerationist Utopian argument assumes that this automation will improve the economies of the world. According to this process of reasoning, the fresh robotic proletariat is able to maximize labour productivity to the level of the unattainable human body.

Moreover, mechanical workers would relieve the existential suffering of human workers. By replacing their human brothers and sisters in the most physically demanding works, they would improve their physical, mental, and spiritual condition. In addition, they would let them to freshen up their shift – a beneficial distraction from professional regular for professional and intellectually stimulating projects.

Accelerationist utopiates besides believe that automated reality will bring full compensated free time. It will bring long awaited rest. He'll get his real life back after work.

Interestingly, the dystopian approach, although it seems to be the only logical alternate to utmost techno-optimism, is not an effective opposition.

Yes, a socio-economic intuition seems correct to propose that the fetishizing of economical productivity dehumanizes and so powerfully dehumanized the image of modern capitalism. In another words, obsessing focus on the product towards the entity that produces it makes the request of that entity marginal.

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Therefore, the aforementioned story of painless change appears to be a picturesque, neoliberal dream, an imaginary communicative of a planet in which all worker is ready to revalue his full life at any time and start a full fresh chapter.

It's a communicative that ignores a full bunch of workers whose age or psychophysical predispositions do not let specified a violent change in their lives. It besides ignores anyone who, economically, cannot afford even the shortest time between leaving 1 post and preparing for another. She besides ignores those who simply don't want to change their professional path, do not want to erase the work that is part of their identity and draw the same again, which they see all day in the mirror.

Indeed, the critical thought of the utopia in question exposes the unethicalness of categorizing the technological momentum as values in itself. It reminds about humanism in the era of posthumanism, about human needs in the age of marketplace needs, about the subject in the age of object.

However, it does not motivate to act. For in order to full follow the anti-accessionist argument, technological advancement should be radically rejected as such. To decision distant from the present to the sentiments of Primitivist – hippie and/or anarchist life in a forest hut distant from civilization. simply put, from 1 dream to another.

The uncritical adoption of Acceleration narration can consequence in technological unemployment, and the celebration of an highly critical attitude can consequence in head hiding in the sand. So possibly the only thought to face the crazy technological momentum is to find in the 3rd option.

This somewhat paradoxical, but most likely the most effective doctrine for the fresh age assumes a double negation – leaving both the humanist and technocratic framework.

To reject the humanist discourse is to have the courage to admit to itself that acceleratorism, like e.g. climate disaster, simply cannot stop. On the another hand, this is not the same as the necessity of dipping in the depths of fatalistic inaction. Rather, it means changing the strategy of opposition from romantic-revolutionary (hippie, anarchoprimitism, alterglobalist) to pragmatic-reformist.

Such an approach to the problem in a way motivates to a brutal "forget" about man, i.e. to break the conviction of modern ability to follow his highest good. At the same time, it encourages real focus on his needs. So the recipe is not to visualize the ideal, unfulfilled human fate, but to focus on real external conditions. To do anything, you cannot quit the game, but you must effort to modify its rules.

Technoscepticism is an absolute necessity nowadays. Only by taking this position are we able to defend ourselves from the operating force of breaking the neck of progress.

On the another hand, this uncertainty about futurism should be highly restrained. The belief in neo-Luddistic fantasies of an anti-technology outturn is only possible to lead to 1 – inhibiting any kind of impasse, sociopolitical.

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We must remember that present we all live in a dystopian cyberpunk reality. 1 that requires us to have a sound judgement of the situation, not to escape into a dream world. possibly the dreams of large revolutions can be the most picturesque, but it truly is only with the awareness of real origin that you sleep peacefully.

Technology unemployment won't fight the large Idea. This has long been intercepted by the hegemonic strength of Accelerationist capital. In this situation, human dignity can only be regained by bringing the large thought to the ground level without pardon.