Too smart, too spurious:
smarthome pitfalls...
Chore wheels + better division of labor + communal labor + universal design...
Yes, accessibility wins should be well guarded + kept.
Best/Worst Quote:
<<But there aren't enough lines of code in the world to do what we really want: to give us our country manor staff.>>
#labor
#llm
#AI
#workers
#classism
#DivisionOfLabor
#TheSecondShift
#Adulting
#TemporarilyEmbarassedMillionaires
#SmartHomes
#IoT
#InternetOfThings
"[W]hile Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital served to fill the gap left in Baran and Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital, Braverman at the same time took the description of the Scientific-Technical Revolution developed in Sweezy’s monograph, together with the general analysis of Monopoly Capital, as the historically specific basis of his own analysis. Fifty years after the publication of Labor and Monopoly Capital, the work thus remains the crucial entry point for the critical analysis of the labor process in our time, particularly with respect to the current AI-based automation.
Braverman’s basic argument in Labor and Monopoly Capital is now fairly well-known. Relying on nineteenth-century management theory, in particular the work of Babbage and Marx, he was able to extend the analysis of the labor process by throwing light on the role of scientific management introduced in twentieth-century monopoly capitalism by Fredrick Winslow Taylor and others. Babbage, nineteenth-century management theorist Andrew Ure, Marx, and Taylor had all seen the pre-mechanized division of labor as primary, and as the basis for the development of machine capitalism. Thus, the logic of an increasingly detailed division of labor, as depicted in Adam Smith’s famous pin example, could be viewed as antecedent and logically prior to the introduction of machinery.
(...)
It was Braverman, following Marx’s lead, who brought what came to be known as the “Babbage principle” back into the contemporary discussion of the labor process in the context of late twentieth-century monopoly capitalism, referring to it as “the general law of the capitalist division of labor.”"
#Automation #Capitalism #Monopolies #MonopolyCapital #Marx #Marxism #Algorithms #AI #DivisionofLabor
> For similar reasons, #AdamSmith warned that in any civilized society governments would have to intervene to prevent the #DivisionOfLabor from making people “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be.” He based his rather nuanced advocacy of #markets on the thesis that if conditions were truly free, markets would lead to perfect #equality. That was their #MoralJustification. All of this has been forgotten by the #BoughtPriesthood #御用学者
#技師
In spring 2020, U.S. fathers did more housework and childcare than usual when both partners worked from home, but the gender gap in domestic work did NOT change because mothers also did more. #NICHDImpact #COVID19 #GenderGap #Housework #DivisionOfLabor #Fatherhood #Mothers #Parenting
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35599685
I am a woman married to a man. We’re not exactly a traditional cishet couple. He likes to paint his nails and I hate wearing makeup. Oh, and I’m #bisexual and #asexual.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-husband-and-i-dont-fit-neatly-into-traditional-gender-roles-b763505c44b7?sk=681b1b4db5409cdcef7b80e669910016
"I didn’t feel missed as a person, I felt missed as staff. My invisible labor was made painfully visible when I left the house.”
#MaggieSmith #Poetry #DivisionOfLabor #Marriage #Divorce
https://www.thecut.com/article/book-excerpt-you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-maggie-smith.html
i have tasked older child to make #applesauce. last time it came out caramelized (don't try to play animal crossing while waiting for apples to simmer!) but really tasty. we'll see what we get tonight.
Women continued doing the majority of housework, even when they end a relationship and marry (or move in with) a new male partner.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35756753
#NICHDImpact #GenderEquity #Housework #Gender #DivisionofLabor #Marriage #Relationships #Family
In spring 2020, U.S. fathers did more housework and childcare than usual when both partners worked from home, but the gender gap in domestic work did NOT change because mothers also did more.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35599685
#COVID-19 #Covid19 #Gender #DivisionofLabor #HouseholdLabor #Housework #DomesticWork #Childcare #Fathers #Mothers #NICHDImpact
@LeoSammallahti @mattcropp interesting and important thread
#organizing #divisionoflabor
