tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post5979842348354791898..comments2024-03-28T17:46:07.937+00:00Comments on The Edithorial: Robots & Utopia Ancient & ModernEdith Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02518971064140009711noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post-6659076698909610442015-05-24T10:05:27.013+01:002015-05-24T10:05:27.013+01:00Rehan, I am so delighted you like it. I wrote that...Rehan, I am so delighted you like it. I wrote that book from the heart.Edith Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02518971064140009711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post-15962928466906931112015-05-24T10:04:51.719+01:002015-05-24T10:04:51.719+01:00Dear Walter
Thanks for this. I completely agree th...Dear Walter<br />Thanks for this. I completely agree tht labourers UNDER CAPITALISM are threatened by robots, and that some labour is a healthful part of life. But if we all had a minimum wage and basic needs--health, education, housing--guaranteed, under a different economic system, then more time for leisure would surely be a good thing?Edith Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02518971064140009711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post-39618780207695250792015-05-18T11:29:40.068+01:002015-05-18T11:29:40.068+01:00Under the keel nine fathom deep,
From the land of ...<i>Under the keel nine fathom deep,<br />From the land of mist and snow,<br />The spirit slid: and it was he<br />That made the ship to go.</i><br /><br />I can't remember ever seeing a book such as your <i>Introducing the Ancient Greeks</i>, to encapsulates so incredibly much in a single book. It is truly a work of exceptional scholarship and deep insight. I have also just started on <i>Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun</i>.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post-8715041460444963392015-05-17T16:25:31.136+01:002015-05-17T16:25:31.136+01:00Dear Miss Hall, though I greatly respect and am th...Dear Miss Hall, though I greatly respect and am thankful for your work in Greek, I believe your comments drift into Marxist fantasy. Laborers are not released to lives of leisure and self-edification by automation; they are simply condemned to lives of unemployment, poverty, public-assistance, and idleness. There is DIGNITY for individuals in practically any sort of labor — as long as it is not too dangerous or dirty; for it enables a simple man to feed and support his family. Like the wave of automation that hit the American auto-Industry in the 1960s-to present (I am writing this in Detroit), this innovation will only put more money in the hands of corporate elites and undercut the economic potential of persons whose education never took them so far as to be capable of reading the Manifesto — much less Greek or Latin. Such folks now make a good wage driving 18 wheelers and Fed-Ex trucks. Those jobs will disappear with this technology, leaving intellectual elites, like you and I, untouched — that is, until some out of work trucker or cab-driver puts a pistol in your or my belly in order to feed his family or the drug habit he has acquired in idle-despair.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10311852507118886671noreply@blogger.com