I work as an account manager of a downstream supply chain business. I work 10 hours a day, no WFH nothin and my pay is at the lower end of the spectrum.
Lately they have been looking into automation to solve a few overloading issues and found a rudimentary solution which theoretically would have the power to reduce our work timings from 10 to 9 since it literally was taking 1/4th of our dumb admin work. this excited all of us since we could focus on launching new Products and having a More relaxed working environment.
But in the words of our CEO ‘let’s make it a bit challenging, you don’t want to be too free now ’. Why is it that managers and CEOs think that unless you’re choc full of stupid work and furiously calling and typing throughout the day you’re somehow not making profits or innovating.
Me personally have found to be 10x more passionate about shit that I didn’t even have interest in the first place just because the work environment gets more relaxed when the CEO is not there.
Automation will never result in the betterment of our lives. Instead it would just push us further into a dystopian life lacking of meaning.
People expect that automation might cause unemployment which would somehow trigger better living benefits etc. as people are made redundant but what it’s actually only going to result in is higher profits through automation as well as higher profits due to lower wages driven by desperation of unemployment. It’s going to be a win-win. And it’s my belief that the only way forward is unionization as no amount of capitalist innovation will ever solve any real issues of the working class anymore.
Back in the old days supply met demand and innovation was done to speed up supply to meet demand. Capitalism worked here. But as time passed and greed surmounted real demand declined while supply just grew stronger which is a phenomenon never seen before. This was enabled since corporations manufactured demand through marketing etc. along with their products.
As I type this my old iPhone is struggling to handle it and glitching out on me indicating that it maybe time for me to buy the new iPhone. Since Apple has built a failsafe into their products like many other companies also do lmao.
Since typing has become impossibly slow now thank you for the read 🙂