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Someone was saying that even if using machines becomes cheaper than using humans, capitalist will still use humans because

"automation constitutes constant capital and human labour is variable capital

The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall disproves that fact"

What do those mean?

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[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I feel like you’re missing the point. Machines are quickly reaching the stage where they will able to troubleshoot, think and reason.

That’s what we’re discussing.