It’s been racking my brain lately how off things seem..
In the 1940s Builders would make their own screws and fixtures and would unload manually; now fixtures get mass produced and materials dropped by crane
All checkouts would be individually calculated; now they are scanned
All sales/dialogs/questions would be on the phone; now we have emails or texts and apps
Logistics would use maps, radio and memory; now we have gps
All banking would be done in the bank; now it’s all digital
Goods would be crafted; now they are robotically printed
All paperwork would be mailed; now it’s faxed then emailed
I could go on but I think you get the point. Where is all this bonus time saved going? What have we gained from all this efficiency if we are working harder than ever? I really just can’t account for it.
Is it as simple as just more going straight to the top? More yachts for our oppressors? I’m not an economist and I’m no genius but something seems to not make sense.
And what about when AI kicks into a point where it can do a lot of the work we do, It should mean we can kick back to a 3 day 4 hour working week and still get the same work done but I feel that won’t be the result and instead we will have too work 14 hour days.
What am I missing beside;
New markets
Bigger population?
More disparity