Elites have decided that a new kind of Marxism must emerge to “equitably divide” the output of the robots for all the non-working humans.
The French and other European countries have generous social/welfare programs and spend as much as 40 percent of their GDP for that purpose. They have free healthcare, paid parental leave, paid family leave, free childcare, free pre-school education, five weeks of paid vacation annually, 35-hour workweek, generous unemployment, housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.
As artificial intelligence and robots take over and the techno world elites promise that work will become obsolete for humans, an important question emerges, how will the spoils of robotic labor be divided among humans? What is the equity in that?
Elites have decided that a new kind of Marxism must emerge to “equitably divide” the output of the robots for all the non-working humans.
Karl Marx wrote in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme, referring to free access to goods and services, “To each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” (Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen).
A communist system will offer abundance of goods and services that would satisfy everybody’s needs and wants. In reality, no such abundance existed under socialism, the precursor to communism. People were left hungry and wanting for basic needs, services, goods, medicines, and food.
Marx wanted output to be divided equally among all, regardless of each individual’s contribution to the production process. If you complied with the ruling marxists, then you lived and ate bones and scraps they provided after the best of everything was sent to export. If you did not, then swift prison and execution was your fate.
While the Soviet socialist republics and their satellite countries suffered economic deprivations, the free market capitalists prospered at all levels of society. Unarmed, dispossessed of their property and lied to by their Communist Party governments, the Soviet satellite countries could not mount a serious fight against the twentieth century Marxist governments.