Lots of times I look at new features and wonder who really "okays" them. Is it the shareholders or is it the consumers? If consumers knew that, even when our time is being cut into, we were responsible in a businesse cutting out jobs; would we still do it?
I mean you bring up good points; however, it almost feels like a deflection. It is as if we are all believed to think it actually helps us; however, the business does not want you to see the side that would make us reconsider. Like what would happen if I did not use half the features? What happens if a whole bunch of consumers never used these new features? It would have to change.
If I were to finish all my errands and stand in a line, I am thinking I would definitely do it. Or if it meant that another job opened up for me to stand in line, I would do it.
The analogy is similar to cows in a slaughter house. You see the most convenient way they are driven, study their behavior, and then make more efficient for them to be sliced and diced. It's like either way they are going to be slaughtered; however, it is a faster way to get them there.
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Prelude (1443)
8 years ago
The new order of things ideally means that there are just a different set of jobs for people to have instead, and things have always been that way.
When the automobile took over from horse-drawn carts, people probably protested that motor vehicles are putting people out of jobs because now nobody needs to take their horses to the blacksmith. Blacksmiths all over the world were suddenly no longer needed on such a regular basis.
But there are still blacksmiths and people who shoe horses, it's just that the nature of the job has changed because all the vehicles on roads are no longer using horses. People had to adjust and find another way to make a living -- and they did.
And there was a new industry creating jobs -- the automobile industry. And so on, and so on.
The same goes for anything you can name that was ever a job people could do. Something always makes a certain job obsolete in the end. A population of people just get absorbed into another industry. It's happened this way throughout the history of the world, because it isn't just the technological revolution that has made jobs redundant -- every change humans ever created in the way we do things has done that all through history.
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