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Can someone please explain this to me? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Someone was saying that even if using machines becomes cheaper than using humans, capitalist will still use humans because

"automation constitutes constant capital and human labour is variable capital

The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall disproves that fact"

What do those mean?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Yes you can have machines tell you what’s wrong, but they cannot reason why a problem exists and how to fix it.

This is also true of a human worker though. That's why the profession of "doctor" exists. The question is, why couldn't a robot be made to perform maintenance on other robots?