Illusions Lost - An Elegy in Three Parts

By Derryl Hermanutz

200 years ago David Ricardo - that great advocate of free trade to exploit the wealth-enhancing benefits of comparative advantage - admitted the Luddites were right. Replacing paid workers with unpaid machines permanently reduces the need for human workers and renders the human population "redundant" to the owners of the machines. {David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Chapter XXXI On Machinery (1817)}Today we are approaching the logical conclusion of that process. Here's what it looks like.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08B33T4F8
• ISBN13: 9798653443602
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"