tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48211716139706328562024-02-08T14:49:08.299-05:00FAIR JOBS FOR CANADIANSEMPLOYERS ARE INCREASINGLY HIRING CASUAL, PART-TIME AND CONTRACT WORKERS. THIS SHORT-SIGHTED PRACTISE HURTS THE NATIONAL ECONOMY BY INTRODUCING UNNECESSARY INSECURITY INTO 30% OF THE WORKFORCE WHICH LIMITS THEIR “BIG TICKET” CONSUMPTION. LEGISLATION SIMILAR TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND JOB EQUITY IS REQUIRED TO MONITOR AND REDUCE THIS TREND. THIS WOULD ALSO REDUCE WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION WHEREBY MANY WORKERS ARE DENIED SALARIES AND BENEFITS ENJOYED BY THEIR FELLOW FULL-TIME PEERS.Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-1382517882455290582023-03-02T12:18:00.000-05:002023-03-02T12:18:28.809-05:00The Precariat...Is this the future of work?<br /><br />
Is this what work is coming to? --- A new class of workers---The “precariat,” workers who perform ad hoc single "gig" jobs in which labor brokers encourage people to work on contingency without basic employment benefits or protections. The companies essentially channel one-off tasks to the fastest taker or lowest bidder, pitting workers against one another in a kind of labor elimination match. Such workers perform a variety of jobs, not knowing whether they will be called, or if they are called, what they will be asked to do in the next hour, never mind for the rest of the day or week! This is the supreme level of insecurity without any job guarantee what-so-ever! <br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/technology/in-the-sharing-economy-workers-find-both-freedom-and-uncertainty.html?emc=edit_th_20140817&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=65437433" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/technology/in-the-sharing-economy-workers-find-both-freedom-and-uncertainty.html?emc=edit_th_20140817&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=65437433</a>Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-91723781221227760672020-07-03T19:29:00.000-04:002020-07-04T10:33:00.152-04:00An economic system to better float eveyone's boat<br />
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even the government would go bankrupt as all its income and consumption taxes
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economy as well as a giant boost to gov't revenues, a giant boost to corporate
profits, and a giant boost to standard of living. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">4) The economy is a wall of mirrors with money having no
standard or innate value or cost to produce so free money is available in
unlimited quantities to fund the UBI at no cost, the only proviso being that
money releases must be fast enough to grow the economy but not too fast so as
to overinflate it with circulating currency to avoid German style hyperinflation
to devalue money to zero value----this kind of control is not new as even
today, the Canadian gov’t allows money to devalue annually at the price
inflation rate if 2%-3%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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supply in point 4 in mind, Money printed and thrown out the back door of the
mint and distributed in the wind is just as good a distribution system as at
present and probably as valid as today's work/pay distribution system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thus putting it in circulation, that buck that can be borrowed for 5c per annum
earns gov'ts at present 13c HST the first time and every time it is used. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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addition to all personal, corporate and investment taxes normally generated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pandemic and the free pandemic emergency money allocations will shortly become
permanent with the convergence of pandemic job losses and increasing
robotization which will revolutionize the idea of finding/needing work, the
growth of a fairer economy to wipe out poverty by more fairly distributing
wealth, public attitudes that will accept public debt as a revenue producing
public stimulative asset as the "new normal" that will produce
undreamed wealth, innovation, and life style improvements in industrial
revolution sized changes of wealth creation and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>world development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lai at last! <o:p></o:p></span><img alt="Image may contain: mountain, sky, cloud, outdoor and nature" src="https://scontent.fyto1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s403x403/106985914_10163829151475511_6008484264630175608_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=r07el61SlwUAX8fuYFw&_nc_ht=scontent.fyto1-2.fna&_nc_tp=7&oh=4904391ce44e5f7968f0e71439428cd1&oe=5F262447" /></div>
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Baishui Tai in Shangra Lai County China--beautiful and peaceful natural mountainside cascading white water limestone terraces I visited in 1996 said to be the inspiration for the Dongba Religion of the local Naxi Minority People who also have the world's last pictographic written language. </div>
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Students---Start preparing for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution. Workers---It's probably too late for you! Sorry!
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This is interesting, and a little frightening especially if you have young children or grandchildren who have yet to enter the workforce.</div>
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The future few saw, and many still don't believe, is quickly approaching.</div>
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In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.</div>
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What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years and, most people won't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on film again?</div>
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Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore 's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.</div>
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This will happen again with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. </div>
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Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to the Exponential Age. </div>
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<b><u>Software</u></b> will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.</div>
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<b><u>Artificial Intelligence</u></b>: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world This year, a computer beat the best Chess-player in the world. In the US , young lawyers already don't get jobs. </div>
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Because of IBM's Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.</div>
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Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, its 4 times more accurate than human nurses.</div>
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<b><u>Autonomous cars</u></b> : In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don't want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver's licence and will never own a car.</div>
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It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that. We can transform former parking spaces into parks</div>
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1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 60,000 mi (100,000 km), with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million mi (10 million km). That will save a million lives each year.</div>
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Most car companies will probably become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla.</div>
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<b><u>Insurance companies</u></b> will have massive trouble because without accidents, insurance will become 100 times cheaper. The car insurance business model will disappear.</div>
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<b><u>Real estate</u></b> will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.</div>
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Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. Energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that can't last. Technology will take care of that strategy.</div>
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With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination of salt water now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter (@0.25 cents). We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.</div>
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<b><u>Health:</u></b> The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it.</div>
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It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any disease.. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medical analysis, nearly for free. Goodbye, medical establishment.</div>
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<u><b>3D printing</b></u>: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became100 times faster. All major shoe companies have already started 3D printing shoes.</div>
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If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st century.</div>
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<b><u>Work---70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years</u></b>. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a short time. This will require a rethink on wealth distribution.</div>
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<b><u>Aeroponics</u></b> will need much less water. The first Petri dish produced veal, is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don't need that space anymore.</div>
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There is an app called "moodies" which can already tell in which mood you’re in. By 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions, if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they’re telling the truth and when they’re not.</div>
Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-79538683996361015132017-04-09T18:30:00.001-04:002017-04-09T23:25:05.149-04:00Big time traction for Job Stealing RoboticsI've been writing on this and other related job stealing issues since 2006 and its just started to gain some big time traction<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/automation-nation/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">like this video on CBS Sunday Morning today</b></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">. </b></span> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/automation-nation" target="_blank">http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/automation-nation</a><br />
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<br />Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-37354917947646746582017-03-28T18:39:00.001-04:002017-04-22T09:45:32.139-04:00Governor Bank of Canada Responds To My "Futures" Questions <span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Poloz" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><b>Stephen Poloz</b></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><b>,</b> Governor of the Bank of Canada, was in Oshawa this morning to deliver an interesting talk about the history of Canada's Economic Growth. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOhXMIRKm_w" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></a></span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOhXMIRKm_w" target="_blank"><b>He took questions following his presentation and my question having to do with job losses to robotics and jobs being increasingly defined as part time, contract, and casual, questions pertinent to this site, starts at minute 43.</b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In response to my question, the governor suggested that replacement of workers by machinery has historically created more jobs which is true...but, there was no opportunity for a follow up question that might have directed the governor's attention to:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Historical fact may have little significance for the future since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Ux83nJC0U&t=1192s" target="_blank"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">we have never before produced machines with AI (artificial intelligence) with many humanoid features</span></b></a></span> that allow state-of-the art computer/robotics to paint pictures, write software, poetry and music,<b> <a href="https://www.limacharlienews.com/tech/battle-of-virtual-assistants/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">understand and respond to the spoken word</span></a>,</b> have thinking and abstract analytic abilities to defeat the world's greatest chess champion, slaughter record setting jeopardy champs, diagnose medical conditions, design prescriptive drugs, fix disease causing DNA defects, design and "print" buildings, furnishings and tools, and accomplish any myriad of abstract tasks, etc. and with these abilities, do jobs now done by humans.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When machines will do most of the work in perhaps 20-30 years at the present rate of change, what policy steps would he recommend to the government now <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">in preparation for transition to a future world of little work. The governor's answer that history following the industrial revolution up until the 40's and 50's may have been quite accurate in that slow changing world but is</span><a href="http://diginomica.com/2017/04/18/cloud-computings-history-foretells-the-future-of-automotive/" target="_blank"> <b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">less relevant in our far less predictable space-age rapidly changing world</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">.</span></b></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/3163885/canadian-job-growth/" target="_blank"><b style="background-color: yellow;">Unfortunately the Governor did not touch on the topic of precarious part time, contract, and casual employment that is growing twice as fast as full time work according to Statistics Canada reports.</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.bankofcanada.ca/2017/03/canada-150-takes-world-raise-nation/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Text of Governor's </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Address</span></a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/7227539-bank-of-canada-gov-stephen-poloz-urges-canada-to-remain-open-to-trade-immigration-during-durham-co/" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/7227539-bank-of-canada-gov-stephen-poloz-urges-canada-to-remain-open-to-trade-immigration-during-durham-co/" target="_blank">Speech Summary - Oshawa This Week</a></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<a href="https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/poloz-warns-protectionism-rarely-succeeds-urges-open-borders/article34442673/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&" style="font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><b>Governor Warns Against Protectionism - Globe and Mail</b></span></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-of-canada-poloz-university-speech-1.4043687" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><b>"Dust-Off" of NAFTA Welcomed---CBC</b></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Stephen Poloz, Governor, Bank of Canada backgrounder</b></span>Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-89956027825572213002017-03-18T19:44:00.000-04:002017-03-19T13:27:35.317-04:00Ontario to "Trial" a Guaranteed Income Plan<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Ontario Premier Wynne is introducing a </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/03/16/pilot-project-to-introduce-a-basic-income-in-ontario-gets-strong-public-support.html" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">guaranteed income pilot plan</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="background-color: white;">, This has already been piloted in Dauphin Manitoba in the 70's before cancellation by a Conservative Government and has already been introduced in some countries with others rapidly coming onstream. </span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170118-what-if-the-state-provided-everyone-with-a-basic-income" style="background-color: yellow;" target="_blank">While some may reject this as "welfare", it will become common in future due to massive job loss due to automation and the growing inequity between "former" workers and their "former" employers and investors who are benefitting obscenely by pocketing the wage/benefits losses of their laid off workers</a><span style="background-color: white;">. This payout in the future will be universally accepted by all as job losses accelerate and this guaranteed income becomes the sole financial support of most </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">citizens. So how is this all paid for? Stay tuned for my next post! https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/03/16/pilot-project-to-introduce-a-basic-income-in-ontario-gets-strong-public-support.html</span>Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-69903303149347501552017-03-17T09:45:00.000-04:002017-03-17T10:14:35.665-04:00The Future! Will You Be Needed Or Wanted?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just as Henry Ford made automobiles ubiquitous to every family and workplace, robot researchers, developers, and</span><a href="https://www.chinamoneynetwork.com/2017/03/16/china-robotics-unicorn-ubtech-wants-life-size-robot-friend-in-every-home" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">manufactureres are predicting that life size artificial intelligence robots with human-like mobility will reside in many average households, offices, and workplaces in 5-10 years</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as workers, friends, servants, and even girlfriends and boyfriends. Will there be any need for you? </span></div>
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<br />Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-10117835962104638692017-03-08T00:24:00.001-05:002017-04-22T11:23:09.496-04:00Why Work?<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;">This video, The History of Work, unfortunately, does not speculate about our work future, stopping as it does with the advent of the early computers without speculating on their impact to our future world of work.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Recent years, though, have defined that future without question, and in so doing, have also defined a<b><span style="color: blue;"> </span></b></span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/promise-smart-frictionless-world-cathy-engelbert" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><b>roadmap of the future of human life.</b></span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: lime;"> </span></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Every innovation created more free time---think of the washing machine, and just as that innovation provided more time by freeing people from a consuming household chore providing time for other things, computerized technology and robotics will take that free time explosion to the extreme---back to Aristotle’s idea of a life of leisure doing what you want to do rather than imprisoning us from the need of work for survival!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">During the transition, which we are undergoing now, our world will suffer severe disruption as we adjust our thinking, our expectations, our habits, our very way of life to a future of peace, eradication of poverty, equality of opportunity, and respect for our fellow man---a </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 17.12px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La" target="_blank"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">Shangri-</span></b><span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">La</b></span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">devoid of the burdens of work....<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia" target="_blank"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">the Utopia first proposed by Greek Philosopher Plato!</span></b></a></span></span><br />
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A world without work for humans will bring profound changes to the past rules that defined our world, its economy, and the roles of people---- And no matter what you think and believe now, you too will be swept up in the tsusami of social and economic change.---and acceptance of and adaptation to the profound changes will be your lifejacket to survival.</div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In response to inquiries, I have been inspired to dig deeper to further clarify thoughts I've expressed before but have never detailed through numbers. So following is an economic model that I've devised that returns and supports pre-robotics hiring and salary levels, as well as traditional corporate profit levels and that provides a reasonable and sensible model for the transition to the robotics future of little work.
The major problem faced in most economic systems of all political philosophies is to glorify greed by concentrating wealth in the hands of a few. In Canada, for example,<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/report-makes-recommendations-to-achieve-economy-that-works-for-all-canadians/article33629405/" target="_blank"> the two richest Canadians are wealthier than the bottom 30</a>%. The rich and powerful are concentrating wealth by replacing workers with robotics, who neither get paid nor consume the product they make. Without acknowledging that in the end this slows down consumption ultimately resulting in the bankrupting of their companies as well as in helping to bring down the entire economy.
The solution lies in evaluating merit of continuing the historical rules and ideas that are no longer working...Everything we know about economies and economic rules must change to alleviate the economic problems that we have to avoid upcoming revolution. In this case, historical practice and beliefs is a giant inert rock that is perpetuating a failing economy for most people.
Change may require full-fledged revolution or international war but my hopeful wish is that change will come voluntarily and peacefully when all the rich corporate guys start recognizing their ensuing bankruptcy when robotics steals most jobs resulting in few product sales.
A wise intermediate step would be to significantly cut work hours to retain nearly full employment with pay tied to productivity rather than hours worked.
For example GM Oshawa used to employ 30,000 workers but now robotics has resulted in increased production with only 2000 workers, and huge corporate profits generated by cost savings from the decreased workforce. So GM could afford to hire the former 30,000 40 hr/week workers for 3 hr/week at the traditional old salaries based on productivity and not hours of work while maintaining traditional profit levels.
Right now, the former salaries of the 28000 laid off employees is going to executive salaries and bonuses and record GM profits and investor dividends.
Robotics will continue to deflate employment to near zero in the future. Lock step with this is the hope that common sense will prevail to insure that necessary change and revision occurs as needed to insure both sustainable economic health and a peaceful social future. Without voluntary and peaceful change to more fairness in the distribution of the proceeds of our North American economies, the revolutions in China and Egypt will be repeated here.
Please note ---All figures quoted here are guestimates for illustrative purposes only---but principles used in their generation apply to the real situation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apple computers were invented in 1976, and in 1977, my employer purchased 12 an</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d provided me with one of the 12. My secretary had a very user-unfriendly IBM wordprocesser at the time where a lengthy address had to be inputted to find and access files</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">All this happened starting in about 1980 to exponentially increase productivity, lower prices, and foster high employment and wage gains during the transition.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">The reverse is true now with growing unemployment as robotics and other computerized technology steals most jobs which will usher in a new era when few work and sparking new rules about how we keep consumption necessary to keep the economy afloat for the new world.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="q0r9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Change is necessary to avoid revolutions of the kind experienced in both China and Egypt, the conditions of severe economic inequality and lack of opportunity for a decent life that i was able to witness first hand shortly before their uprisings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Brexit and Trump's election, along with massive job losses via robotics, are early signs that revolution is near, something i have been writing about on this site since 2006. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Massive change in our thinking of how we cope with precarious part time, contract, and casual work, job losses due to technology, and in fairer sharing of the wealth and opportunity in our society is necessary to avoid revolution, rebellion, and impending gloom. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality?CMP=share_btn_fb" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">But don't take my word for it...see Stephen Hawkins ideas in this article i discovered today.</a></div>
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Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-20005615255741893532016-12-07T16:57:00.000-05:002016-12-07T16:57:03.250-05:00The Next Technology Revolution Will Drive Abundance And Income Disparity<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.6px;">The new technology revolution will result in dramatically increasing productivity and abundance but the process of getting there raises all sorts of questions about the changing nature of work and the likely increase in income disparity.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.6px;">With less need for human labor and judgment, labor will be devalued relative to capital and even more so relative to ideas and machine learning technology. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.6px;">In an era of abundance and increasing income disparity, we will need a new version of capitalism that is focused on more than just efficient production but one that also places greater prioritization on the less desirable side effects of capitalism---such as a fair distribution of the riches of the economy in light of few jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1926765617"></span>Read what Vinad Khosla, Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, says about this!<span id="goog_1926765618"></span></a></span>Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-25821810446703370782016-11-20T15:18:00.002-05:002017-05-02T12:31:24.083-04:00The Day Of Reckoning Is Near!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here is yet
another explanation of big scale economic changes taking place in the “developed
world”----the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few as technology
replaces workers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While
productivity continues to grow exponentially, worker’s employment and share of the
growing profits and employment continues to fall!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The day of
reckoning is near! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Who is going
to consume all the output from those machines when few people work? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Is anyone
thinking of how to keep the economy working when few people have disposable
income, consumption falls, and all those companies without sales shutter their
doors because of lack of business?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If not!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revolution is at hand!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And here is <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/politics/donald-trump-could-happen-in-canada-its-already-begun/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;">the full story why Canadian Workers should be angry enough to drive that revolution! </span></a></span></div>
Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-19466863641707038282016-11-06T15:54:00.000-05:002017-03-22T10:17:47.352-04:00Shangra Lai is near!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The best of our world's future Shangra Lai is near, when robotics and computerized technology will replace most human work, and unchain us all from the imprisonment of work---replacing what we have to do with what we want to do. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paid work is a recent phenomenon in human history only arising in the last 200-300 years, while unpaid slavery started in our earliest civilizations and co-exists with paid work in some societies even today. Before work was paid, it was mostly individual or grou</span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">p subsistence in a sharing society. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The challenge in the new future will be for humanity to adjust to productive use of leisure time, </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do believe that without human jobs, a fairer sharing of economic wealth will result through guaranteed income plans which will necessarily arise to keep the economy afloat. This will result in a greater equity and higher living standards for all </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9;">and poverty, greed, crime, war, disease, etc. all will be eliminated...</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/promise-smart-frictionless-world-cathy-engelbert" style="background-color: yellow;" target="_blank">all part of our future "civilized" Shangra Lai.</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">As a transition to a jobless world, I believe that the work week, which hasn't been adjusted downward in 60 years from 40 hours per week despite the arrival of computerized technology and robotics, should be reduced to a level, perhaps full time work of 20 hours per week, to reduce growing unemployment levels and to allow all to job-share and profit from the new technology as well as to provide all learning opportunity to adjust to more leisure time. Also the increased productivity of the computer age should allow pay to be tied to productivity rather than hours worked.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am pleased that <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/11/05/elon-musk-universal-basic-income/?utm_cid=hp-h-1#k3s6k3nKkmqB" target="_blank">Elon Musk has recently stated that he too agrees that some form of guaranteed income is inevitable</a> as technology steals most jobs. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "cambria" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Ontario is poised to become ground zero for what may be the largest pilot project yet to test the notion of a </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/11/03/proposed-basic-income-pilot-would-provide-monthly-payments-of-least-1320.html" target="_blank">basic income</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "cambria" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "cambria" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">in North America.</span><br />
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In a <a href="https://www.ontario.ca/page/finding-better-way-basic-income-pilot-project-ontario" target="_blank">discussion paper</a> released Thursday, Ontario’s special adviser on basic income suggests topping up incomes of the working poor and replacing the province’s meagre and rule-bound social assistance program with a monthly payment of at least $1,320 for a single person, or about 75 per cent of the poverty line.</div>
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I see this as a trial study of economic systems that will be forced to emerge widely in the near future to supply consumption to keep economies afloat as most workers are replaced by robotics and other computerized technology.</div>
Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-61034263635393035912016-10-08T11:18:00.000-04:002016-11-07T00:03:05.692-05:00"Should the government pay to keep you alive?"<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">An interesting debate--"<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/02/09/should-government-pay-you-alive/aaLVJsUAc5pKh0iYTFrXpI/story.html" target="_blank">Should the government pay to keep you alive?</a>" While your immediate answer may be, "Hell No! People have to get off their asses and look after themselves!"---this traditional attitude is being increasingly challenged by thinkers on both the left and right extremes of the political spectrum as the world becomes increasingly dependent on smart machines rather than human labour to do most of the work. <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/02/09/should-government-pay-you-alive/aaLVJsUAc5pKh0iYTFrXpI/story.html" target="_blank">This article will challenge your perspective</a> about the validity of your long held views as we are propelled into the new world! Get ready to "TAKE OFF!" </span>Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-36491559525379228712016-10-07T12:44:00.001-04:002016-10-07T12:44:47.257-04:00Ontario Liberals to Test Minimum Guaranteed Income PlanAs we rapidly lose work worldwide as technology steals most jobs, policy makers must devise ways of supporting the many jobless citizens and <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-will-test-idea-of-a-guaranteed-minimum-income-to-ease-poverty-spending-on-social-programs" target="_blank">Ontario is planning to "test-drive" a minimum guaranteed income plan</a>. This is a very positive move as the first stage of the transition to the upcoming future of few jobs. In past experiments, partly with the Mincom Plan in Dauphin Manitoba and others in the world, it has been found to be cheaper and more effective and efficient to replace the many various welfare and other social support programs with the one program guaranteeing a minimum income for all.Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-10058664729421469012016-09-27T00:13:00.002-04:002016-09-27T00:13:45.925-04:00People Stuck In the Past Threaten Our Future<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_e15" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;">
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"Socialism is the greatest threat to our nation, our freedoms, and our democratic institutions. It must be fought at all levels, and those who show support for such a totalitarian means of governance should be driven to the margins of our society. No less than this will save our country from the tyranny of collectivist ideology."</blockquote>
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<span class="">"What a bunch of drivel Dean. The real threats to the nation are joblessness, inequality, greed, lack of opportunity, corporate fraud, concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, unfair employment practices (35% of Canadian workforce employed in part time, contract, and casual employment cutting 35% of workers out of the consumption of big ticket items thus adversely affecting the economy)...and the problem is getting worse as technology and robotics steals more---and eventually all jobs.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="">When few work, we'll have to pay people without jobs just to keep up consumption to keep the economy afloat. Without consumption, the entire economy would go belly-up!</span></span></blockquote>
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The future is coming fast---and the new times and new conditions will require new thinking and new answers---and the societies stuck with old ideas that fail to transition to the new world will be doomed.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="">Watch the "present" of auto production and try to find the workers making cars these days! I'm trying to figure out, with this reality, how to make sense of the neo-con statement that wants to preserve a past that no longer exists...LOL!</span></span></blockquote>
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<b> “Where to Invade Next"</b> is an eye-opening Michael Moore social commentary documentary available on Netflix. </div>
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social ideas about running a great country...and discovers all the great things
are originally American ideas not currently practised there because America is
a place that presently structures with "the me" in mind while the
forward thinking societies structure everything with "the we" in mind. </div>
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This film reveals what can and
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“<span style="background: white; color: #444444;">Shangri</span><span style="background: white; color: #444444;">-La</span>” world when most work is done by technology requiring
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of 50% workers, prisons with unarmed guards <span style="background: white; color: #444444;">rehabilitative</span> rather than <span style="background: white; color: #444444;">punitive</span>, strong sense of female equality, short work days, universal
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wealthiest economy say they can’t afford!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-9529577104312928052016-09-08T14:36:00.000-04:002016-09-08T15:27:25.709-04:00Received this letter from a reader--Ed G<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">While politicians are beating their gums over the current stagflation and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"> a 7 - 12 percent unemployment number, humanities’ successes and <u>the </u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>accompanying problems they brought are going unnoticed.</u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">The First Industrial Revolution (1840 – 1870) was about water and steam</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"> power, machine tools factories and textile manufacturing and the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"> urbanization of workers. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">The Second Revolution was the technological and took place at the end of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th. It brought in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">electricity, the production line, railroads and gas, water and sewer lines </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">to serve the urbanized workers. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">The Third Revolution, now drawing to a close brought humanity computers, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">cybernetics, robotics, 3D print manufacturing and a massive shift from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">production of needs to the production of wants and at the same time a move </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">of workers to the service industries. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>We now seem to be on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the </u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>rewards and challenges it will bring</u>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">With the problems of extraction of natural resources and the manufacturing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">of needs solved and on the decline, I expect, with others, that there will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">be an <u>‘unemployment’ rate of near 30 percent</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">At the same time a <u>massive increase in the ‘social worker’ sector to</u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u> ‘police’ the massive numbers of recipients will be needed</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">On of the <u>basic objectives of any ruler is to settle the people’. </u>That </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">settlement <u>cannot take place if the people are not fed, housed, and </u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>clothed</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">However, there is a solution on the horizon.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Much attention has been paid to the problem of poverty, which has remained </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">unsolved. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">The reason it has remained unsolved is that poverty is relative and cannot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">be solved. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">If the word is changed to privation, the insufficiency of food, shelter </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">and clothing, it becomes definable and therefore solvable. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">It is well known that the <u>welfare systems in place are to address the </u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>problems introduced when capitalism emancipated slaves from slavery to </u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>wage slavery</u> and manipulated workers by managing wages. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>The solution being studied and on the verge of implementation in many </u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>countries is the provision of a Basic Income</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">That idea is as old as the writings of the revolutionary Tom Paine (1737 –</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">1809). </span><br />
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<u><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Canada was a leader when it experimented by testing the in Dauphin </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Manitoba in 1974 - 1979. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">More youth finished high school, teen pregnancies were reduced, hospital </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">admissions were lowered, especially for mental heath. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">It became a ‘town without poverty”</span></u><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Leaders in all political parties support the idea and it is part of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Green party Platform</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Massive material is available with the Google Search Engine. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Studies have proven that some $40 billions in annual budgetary savings </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">could be realised.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">On December 28 2015 the Toronto Star published an item by Robin V. Sears, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">a principal at Earnscliffe and a Broadbent Institute. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">The Head was “Three big tests for the new Prime Minister.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">The three items were — “real carbon roll¬back, genuine democratic reform, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">and transforma¬tion in the lives of Canada's aboriginal citizens..”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">A fourth needs to be added and substantiation made for it to be included. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u>That fourth, to address the problems of the Fourth Industrial Revolution</u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"><u> is the implementation of a Basic Income</u>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;">All this is "old hat" for me Ed as i've been writing on this topic since 2008 on my blog </span><a class="" href="http://www.fairjobs.ca/" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22.72px;" target="">www.fairjobs.ca</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;"> and in response to a <a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/2009/04/10/failing_economy_creates_a_nation_of_parttimers.html" target="_blank">naive Toronto Star columnist </a>4 or 5 years ago, had a 3 or 4 column wide rebuttle “<a href="http://fairjobsforcanadians.blogspot.ca/2009/04/part-time-work-not-attributable-to.html" target="_blank">letter to the editor</a>” published as the lead letter heading all of the single column letters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;">My approach to the problem of the disappearance of work due to robotics and technological innovations is not as bleak as your crime and starvation scenario but rather indicates the need to phase in shorter work weeks with pay tied to machinery productivity rather than hours worked as we transition to a future of little work. This would avoid revolutions seen in China and The Middle East and provide more (reduced hours with pay tied to company profits/productivity) jobs opportunity and the resultant available consumption capital necessary in the economy to keep the economy afloat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;">Interestingly, the public support in America for Presidential Nominee Candidates like Donald (“We’re Gonna Make America Great Again”) Trump and Bernie (“More Fairness and Opportunity for the Working Class”) Sanders are strong signals of widespread public dissatisfaction with the American System that only works for a few and, without change, is a pre-cursor to future revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;">I have also written about the Dauphin Manitoba Guaranteed Income experiments and see this distribution of wealth as necessary and a positive product of robotics in freeing people to do things they want to do (think, philosophize, write blogs, volunteer, travel, take up new hobbies like art, music, etc.) rather than things they have to do (tedious, boring, and </span><em style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="color: #3b3e41; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; line-height: 22.72px;">repetitious</span></em><i style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;">work). The working classes will get to live the life of the capitalist classes---sit on their asses and let the money flow in to support a good life style. Even without the need to work, few people will be idle. Magically, activity always more than fills idle time! Just ask any retiree!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;">This problem of reducing work is not new to the world. Before the industrial revolution of the mid 1800's, every man, woman, and child worked 100 hours per week in physical hand labour. Mechanization of production allowed for increased efficiency of production and decreased hours of work so, over many years, the full work day became defined as 8 hour days that got enshrined in laws like <a href="https://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/pubs/guide/index.php" target="_blank">Ontario's Employment Standards Act</a> defining the work week as 40 hours for a 5 day work week or 48 hours for a 6 day work week.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px;">The work week has not been redefined for over 60 years despite computers, technological innovation, and robotics which have freed humans from being tied to the job. We now simply have to redefine the work week as we reduce hours of work (job share) with pay tied to productivity rather than hours worked as we transition to the impending future of the need for little human work, an</span><span style="line-height: 22.72px;">d</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22.72px;">We need to figure out ways to fairly divide the fruits of the economy to provide everyone with a "fair share" of the economic pie to allow for the necessary and growing consumption to keep the national and world economies growing and flourishing, where technology frees humans from the bondage of work but continues to provide a growing income tied to growing national economic productivity to feed the consumption necessary for continued economic growth.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">There is nothing bleak about the future. The "crisis" felt by the Luddites who</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">destroyed the early machines taking their jobs is now being felt by many---but those early machines eased all the back breaking labour and brought the world the highest standards of living ever known to man---and this history of progress will be repeated!</span>Site Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875957529020130816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821171613970632856.post-49618329815114177652016-08-21T22:30:00.001-04:002016-08-21T23:05:04.455-04:00Where'd All The Jobs Go?<h3>
<span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="color: red;">The Good Old Days of Full Employment---1936 Auto Assembly</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="color: red;">Where'd all the jobs go? ---1995 Auto Assembly!</span></span></h3>
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<span data-offset-key="ed6ol-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Many who blame job loss to foreign imports do not understand the massive job changes brought about by technology. Robots and machines have replaced far more U.S. workers than Mexicans or Chinese. Today, U.S. factories produce twice as much stuff as they did in1984, but with one-third fewer workers. Manufacturing as a share of GDP is virtually unchanged from 1960.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This academic analysis re the impact to Canada of the the potential loss of free trade deals makes the point I've been making in on this website since 2008, "</span><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/trump-nafta-canada-economy/article31290548/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That manufacturing job loss is not due to offshore manufacturing but due to job theft by technology.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">" </span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">As i've argued on this site, the real problem re job loss is that no compensating downward adjustments in worker full-week hours been made 1) To let workers share in the benefits of technology, and 2) </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/upshot/were-in-a-low-growth-world-how-did-we-get-here.html?emc=edit_th_20160807&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=65437433" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">To maintain sufficient employment levels to insure adequate middle class consumption necessary for a viable economy.</a></div>
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<u><b>A reader (business owner) responded to this item as follows</b></u>---"<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;"><a aria-describedby="js_o" aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_n" class=" UFICommentActorName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=678246284&extragetparams=%7B%22is_public%22%3Afalse%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi_admin%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/wayne.dunlop.98?fref=ufi" id="js_p" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wayne D</a>.--</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So with one third less workers should they make a 13 hr work week and bring back the other 2/3rd of work force and pay them all good full time wages (typical 40 hour work week ) to work 13 hours /week. Serious question.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b>And so I responded</b></u>---</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;">Without debating the figures you use Wayne, let me give you a serious answer...."The benefits of technology must be shared with workers through reduced work hours with sufficient compensating hires to keep up prior employment levels. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;">Pay should be tied to increased productivity resulting from technology rather than hours worked. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;">Presently all the benefits of technology are pocketed by employers, resulting in record profits (shown by record executive salaries, record stock market highs, record dividends, record levels of dead cash in corporate accounts, and an obscene concentration of wealth in the hands of a few). </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;">Presently, workers are paying all the costs of technology implementation through job losses with all short-term benefits accruing to employers. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;">Every job loss leads to less consumption which will in the end result in a downward spiral of fewer jobs and less consumption with fewer and fewer people frequenting businesses like yours, Wayne, which will result in widespread bankruptcies as technology steals most jobs leaving few workers and little consumption in the economy. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;">Both businesses and workers lose in the longer term through employer’s shortsighted greed. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; white-space: normal;">And by the way Wayne, the full full work week has not been reduced from 37.5 hours per week for the last 60 years. Now that we have computerized technology to do most of the work, don't you think it's about time we adjusted work week hours?</span></div>
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