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The origin of the word robot dates back more than a thousand years to the era of serfdom in central Europe when servitude was the currency for rent.
Friedrich Hayek was wrong to argue that Keynesian social democracy is a slippery slope to serfdom.
In almost all other countries, even Czarist Russia, slavery and serfdom were ended by decree or legislation, without a four-year bloodletting.
Serfdom, indenture, slavery, and the caste system all served this end.
Valery Zorkin, who chairs the Constitutional Court, wrote in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the official government newspaper, that serfdom has long been a “social glue” for Russia.
Nostalgia for serfdom compliments the desire for a return to autocracy.
Half a century ago, the free-market economist Friedrich von Hayek argued that a large public sector would threaten democracy itself, putting European countries on a “road to serfdom.”
In other words, Greece will gain easier medium-term repayments in exchange of 40 years of debt serfdom.
Until 1861, Russia was a backward country in which serfdom reigned and royals and aristocrats envied the latest French fashions.
The ECB’s founding chief economist, Otmar Issing, has referred to this as a road to serfdom.
What others saw as the state’s role in elevating the condition of the people, she saw as the insidious road to serfdom.
Once he brings about truly modernizing reforms, people will supposedly follow willingly, forgetting centuries of serfdom, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the political chaos and economic free-fall of the 1990’s, and the decade of Putin’s managed democracy.
Its loss in the Crimean War of 1853-1856 led to the abolition of serfdom and other liberal reforms.
But the flip side of the cash nexus is the freedom and self-determination that comes from overturning customary social relations such as slavery and serfdom, which totally subordinated the individual to the will of a master.
For example, the kingdoms and states of Central and Western Europe abolished serfdom once it became clear in the aftermath of devastating pestilence that dependency and servitude jeopardized leaders’ hold on power.
The pessimist says: without collective action to control the pace and type of innovation, a new serfdom beckons.
In addition to the risk that superintelligent algorithms wipe out humanity, AI also has the potential to be deployed as an instrument of surveillance and repression, paving the way to a new kind of serfdom.
The larger meadow, which in the days of serfdom had taken thirty men two days to mow, was all finished except some short patches at the corners.
He despised the gentry and considered the majority of noblemen to be secretly in favour of serfdom, and only prevented by cowardice from expressing their views.
'These matters might not have been so important in the time of serfdom and may be unimportant in England.
This landowner with the grey moustache was evidently an inveterate believer in serfdom, and a passionate farmer who had lived long in the country.
Where my land used to yield ninefold under serfdom with good management, it only now yields threefold when the labourers are paid in kind.
Now in our case we landlords under serfdom applied improved methods of agriculture: we introduced the winnowing machines and all sorts of tools, organized the carting of manure all by our authority, and the peasants at first resisted and afterwards copied us.
Now that serfdom has been abolished and the power taken out of our hands, our agriculture where it has been brought to a high level must descend to a savage and primitive condition.
'All I see is that we do not know how to farm, and that our farming in the days of serfdom was not at too high but on the contrary at too low a level.
'The remnant of barbarism, the primitive commune with its reciprocal bonds, falls to pieces of itself when serfdom is abolished, and there is nothing left but free labour; its forms are defined and ready and we must accept them.
He is secretly a rooted partisan of serfdom like all of them!' said Sviyazhsky.'Whose Marshal you are...''Yes, but I marshal them in the opposite direction,' said Sviyazhsky, laughing.