/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Skilled labour is alienated into machines, which then impress these abilities against man. Marx talks about this in the Grundrisse. Its shocking today how people imagine that AI appropriating artistic skill isnt part of the same process of social efficiency, where individual craftsmanship is substituted for mass production.

>>2766267
> Progressive deskilling and automation tends toward a situation where service positions are the only jobs available
china is more automated than the US but still produces commodities. no. imperialist outsourcing of productive capital did what you described.

>>2766452
China will begin to outsource production or else they will fall into crisis.

>>2766454
china is further along than the USA was when the USA deindustrialized, and still hasn't deindustrialized. why?

>>2766501
China still has a massive reserve army of labor in agriculture that have not yet been proletarianized. In general, it still makes more sense for Chinese investors to outsource to Xinjiang and Xizang than to outsource to other countries.

>>2766454
Outsorourcing only make sense if the commodity can be made cheaper elsewhere, but china is already the cheapest place for manufacturing

>>2766454
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan is explicitly pro-manufacturing.
"The real economy cannot be lost" - Xi Jinping

Xi’s slogan means Beijing is now extending state support to sectors once deemed outdated like steel, machinery and textiles. They will continue to build an industrial system backed by subsidies and political orders.

>>2766745
We used to build things.

>>2766745
Why would they need to focus an entire plan towards that? Are tou implying they perhaps, outsourced?

>>2766700
China is not the cheapest, not by any stretch