(May 6, 2015 at 4:22 am)bennyboy Wrote:(May 5, 2015 at 8:19 pm)IATIA Wrote: Sorry, but you are wrong. Workers may do the actual work, but workers can be easily replaced. The infrastructure of a thriving economy is a different story. That is not easily replaced.
You're all wrong. It is the relationship between the employers and workers that drives the economy, not the influence of either one in particular.
Don't believe me? See what happens if a factory full of workers just walk off the job. One worker can be replaced, because their skilled coworkers can pick up the slack, and help the new people during training. But a whole system-- no.
Same thing for management. You could fire any CEO, and replace him/her with someone else, and the company would still run. But you fire all of management and execute the visionary who started the company, and you're likely to see a sinking ship.
Agreed, but factories can be operated without bosses and without absentee owners (plenty of employee owned firms & worker cooperatives operating this way right now), but I suppose factories could be automated to the point where you barely need any workers (so the opposite is also true).
But, if all we have is an automated economy with no workers, who will buy the products?
