Putin like all authoritarians, needs an inexhaustible supply of a self renewing resources: cannon fodder.
So does an agrarian society. With automation and AI the need for human bots on an assembly line is no longer needed, however if there is little or no consumption, because there is little or no medium of …
Putin like all authoritarians, needs an inexhaustible supply of a self renewing resources: cannon fodder.
So does an agrarian society. With automation and AI the need for human bots on an assembly line is no longer needed, however if there is little or no consumption, because there is little or no medium of exchange, then the only use humans have is manual labor or cannon fodder
The USSR for instance. Chronic and perpetual shortage of rubles, because of their 100% gold standard, there was little consumption, because there was little demand, because there was a shortage of specie.
But there was a high demand for labor , in mines, farms, timber, road building, and heavy industry.
The KGB supplied the labor. Military labor was acquired by conscription, and if refused there was the KGB.
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Putin like all authoritarians, needs an inexhaustible supply of a self renewing resources: cannon fodder.
So does an agrarian society. With automation and AI the need for human bots on an assembly line is no longer needed, however if there is little or no consumption, because there is little or no medium of exchange, then the only use humans have is manual labor or cannon fodder
The USSR for instance. Chronic and perpetual shortage of rubles, because of their 100% gold standard, there was little consumption, because there was little demand, because there was a shortage of specie.
But there was a high demand for labor , in mines, farms, timber, road building, and heavy industry.
The KGB supplied the labor. Military labor was acquired by conscription, and if refused there was the KGB.