No, labour creates the technology that people use.
The system just decides where the wealth goes.
Under capitalism, it doesn't go to the people who did the labour.
The system just decides where the wealth goes.
Under capitalism, it doesn't go to the people who did the labour.
Automation is removing the human labour factor rapidly, so that no longer holds true. Karl Marx's writings never anticipated cybernetics, transhumanism and genetic engineering despite his followers believing he was some kind of infallible prophet.
The machines will build themselves, repair themselves and run themselves.
Indeed this is the main question of Marx's work.
His ideas are built around an industrial working class, which may vanish completely as an economic unit within the next few decades. In previous eras, there was a need for the rulong class to have a market and a human workforce.
UBI sounds great on paper, but you have to be in with whoever or whatever is doling it, and it hands them power over you.