RE: The Dangers Within
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My personal opinion here though is you address the wrong concerns in this article lol. I'd have thought you'd be more concerned about automation inevitably taking these people jobs. It's not that the employer is being pushed to robots and alternatives based on worker performance or lack thereof.
The employer we well know is going to take whatever option anyway that produces the most money for him. Now in some cases i think this can become unethical as capitalism does from time to time. However it is what it is. I would say that an employee working 20% less a week could also go another way. You could have a healthier happier well rested employee that actually keeps up with production demand or surprasses it.
I know it's more in line less work equals less production. However that isn't exactly true. It's not less work equals less production. It's less qualified and motivated employees equal less production. So when an employee feels his company doesn't even care about them. Do you feel you're going to get the most production out of those employees?
My thoughts are you're going to get the most production out of the happiest employee who wants to be on the job in the first place. In the military they stopped the draft because you'd get unmotivated and unqualified soldiers. I don't think this goes far from the workforce when people being enslaved to work despite not wanting to be.
My solutions are in a double method approach or it kills two birds with one stone. Ubi helps to deal with the inevitable automation of most jobs and losing of jobs. It also i believe would make employees happier and they would be more productive. Now of course you can have the opposite effect. However i'm just suggesting it doesn't have to mean less production necessarily. I wanted to do something about problems like this so i went and created a ubi project in cryptocurrency. Most everyone else tried to build businesses on the blockchain that probably don't even belong on the chain. The others built pyramids and ponzi schemes and that's all they managed to accomplish.
A good reply and I agree with a lot of what you are saying but it never works that way. Smaller companies may care about how happy their workers are but the big ones don't. They look at the numbers and if you are working less hours they will cut your pay. If you are not happy then they will replace you with someone who is prepared to work under those conditions as you are just a number to them. I have noticed a stark difference in how companies work over the last 10 years and it is rather scary as they have no concerns over their staffs well being. I do think differently as a happy staff member does produce better work but how many happy staff members are there these days. Companies want more bang for their buck and the only way they will get it is by automation. Thanks for such a good response.
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Yes you're correct that's the only way they'll get it. However you have to understand every business or company you thinking of serves the consumer. If the consumer can no longer be the consumer because mass automation and ai super intelligence has taken over half the jobs or 47% as the elon musk's and some economist predict. These are still service reciprocal systems. Which means when they can no longer serve human beings. Human beings won't serve it. So now the pandemic brought another reality to our job markets. That is people just stop working. They went on strike.
Yes the system our version of capitalism and the job market half way works now. There are no guarantees in the future these companies can expect the same outcome that they have had through the last several industrial revolutions. So i believe we're headed to uncharted territories. I don't think this is going to go the way many of us think.
I think you going to see people and governments doing things against companies we haven't seen before. The companies that think like what you're talking about on the old 20th century capitalist model. I think that's in for a big change.
i think you going to see alot more of this in the future or those companies you thinking of i don't think they will exist in the future.
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