The useless class is a sinister phrase describing people displaced by technological unemployment due to automation.[1][2] The phrase was coined by Yuval Noah Harari and is promoted by the World Economic Forum.
This development is an example of the mode of production (automation) outstripping the relations of production. (private ownership of the machines) The solution, therefore, is a new relation of production, where the robots are owned by society, so that society can take robotically-generated spoils to provide for all of humanity.
See also
- Useless eaters - similar phrase used by Nazi propagandists
References
- ↑ "AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian". The Guardian.
- ↑ "The rise of the useless class". ideas.ted.com.