Re: The robot economy (AKA how robots will steal your jobs)

From: Mark Monson (m_monson_at_ztech.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:19:23 -0400

"smithaa02" <asdf@asdf.net> wrote in message news:4105bf51_2@newspeer2.tds.net...
> Mark Monson <m_monson@ztech.com> wrote in message

> > Your conclusion does not follow from your premises. You correctly grasp
> that the
> > landowner has superior bargaining power over workers, but then you lump
> land in with
> > capital at the end.
>
> But both capital and land are means of production.

But the first is derived from the second. New tools must be continually produced to
replace those that fall apart. Where labor is free to engage land, there can be no
ongoing monopoly of capital.
>
> > Land ownership is the primary monopoly. Workers who enjoy
> > equal access to land can produce capital ( tools) of their own.
>
> But only by paying monopoly land rent.

Workers who enjoy equal access to land don't pay monopoly land rent. They pay land
rent taxes which fund mutual services. Everybody produces, so there can be no
parasite class.

>
> > Incidentally, Mark Twain wrote a piece similar to yours that shows how
> land monopoly
> > enslaves labor:...
>
> Good stuff. By chance could you provide a source showing that it was indeed
> Mark Twain who wrote that? (just curious if he actually said all that)

Sorry, I don't have a source. I should have said the story is attributed to Twain.

MM

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