Prices and Automation
We always talk about महंगाई (price rise). But prices can't be decreased after a certain level. What is required is more people in production at the same price, so that people have more money in hand to spend.
It will not work in corporate companies and unfair democracy, as they do the opposite. Less money in people hand and more money in owners hand.
Perfect economics
https://iambrainstorming.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-perfect-competition-world.html
Automation makes it more miserable, as only a few earn for production.
Automation is supposed to improve the dignity of the worker by removing the mundane. But the paradox is it's doing the opposite due to concentration of money in few hands and lack of highly skilled and technical education among people.
It only decreases that prices, but don't much benefit to anyone other than the owner.
Automation with capitalism creates more miserable jobs, as even a semi-skilled employee will become jobless, and go for undignified jobs for making a cheap (having a low status and therefore not deserving respect) living.
What Is a Bullshit Job?
Here’s Graeber’s definition, which he constructs carefully over many pages: “a bullshit job is a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.”
Meaningful Work, Human Nature, and a Free Society
The bullshit job is about politics. Take for example automating sewage cleaning.
It can act as a Cobra effect for manual scavengers due to automation.
The cobra effect occurs when an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse, as a type of unintended consequence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Manual scavengers will lose the jobs due to automation, as a result, they will go on strike, and then they will act as a vote bank for opposition leaders. Then, the state government out of fear will revoke the large scale automation of sewage cleaning. The problem will remain unsolved as it was.
Form follows function
It’s a philosophy practiced in many industries. In architecture, this means that buildings should be constructed to support the activities that will be carried out inside them. For example, a skyscraper should be built with several elevator banks; a hospital should be built so that its emergency room is easily accessible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function
Our natural world also utilizes the principle of form following function.
Openstax Biology
We can't solve these problems with democracy that is competitive, where one profit is others loss.
Restructuring of democracy:
Making democracy unfair to fair.
In our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor. But rather than worry about the “end of work,” we should be expanding the opportunities for human interactions within the framework of a new social economy.
The Social Solution to Automation
But why aren't people using it in business?
Instead of people using and improving the automatic dosa making machine, people still sell dosa making manually, because these labor don't have money to buy these kinds of equipment, neither they have skills and knowledge about it.
It will also further worsen the employment of people in the fastfood industry.
It can only happen in the present structure of competitive and unfair economics and democracy not in the collaborative form.
Collaborative economics
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