Of humans and digitally controlled robots
Background:
The wheel was invented 5000 years ago, the gear was invented 3000 years ago, and both were major drivers of human productivity.
With each incremental increase in productivity, it takes fewer humans to provide for all the needs and the desires of all humans.
With the increasing numbers of humans on the planet and with increasing productivity, the planet always needs comparatively fewer and fewer human workers.
This is the macroeconomic direction of human work on planet Earth.
Due to this direction, the collective US governments (federal, state and local) now feed 40+% of the US population. This percentage will only increase, if there is to be continuing social and civil stability.
This is true of all peoples in all countries, as it is a product of human “progress” on planet Earth.
It has been and will continue to be a continuing challenge to keep an increasing proportion of the population, who are not doing productive work, feeling satisfied with their lives and for their not creating nor participating in dysfunctional civil disorder/behavior.
There appears to be in probably every country a segment of its population that does not comprehend that for there to be the creation, preservation and growth of capital assets there needs to be civil order on the streets of a nation.
There appears to be two schools of thought/practice on how to accomplish civil order, by persuasion (verbal devices) or by force (with narrowly proscribed/limited behavior).
Neither ultimately succeeds over a long period of time, unless the population is sufficiently fed.
An examination of history demonstrates that force never succeeds in the long-term, as it always engenders the creation of a counter-balancing entity/ideology that seeks to overthrow it.
As human productivity has increased, the work-week has gone from 7 days to 6 days to 5 days. The shift to 4 days is now underway. All the while, the workday has decreased in hours.
The shift to digitally controlled robots
With the increased use of digitally controlled robots, productivity will continue to accelerate.
A few observations:
Humanity and productivity — AMR – Autonomous Mobile Robots (and how they behave like deferential Canadians) . . .
Teaching AMRs social etiquette: