Is the era of robots .. disappear job opportunities for human beings?

Is the era of robots .. disappear job opportunities for human beings?


Lorenzo wrote Vuoramonta, a professor at the University of Pretoria, the political economy of the following article on a site Konfersishn, on the impact of the current economic approach to the future of jobs and the factors affecting it. Where economic growth of the paradox of productivity suffers. We'll compete companies to reduce the time and effort in the production processes, which are generally regarded as a sign of efficiency, but so disturbing results in the truth.



If things did not take the production and consumption on the rise, the people will lose their jobs, as it is possible to achieve the production itself through a smaller number of workers. That is why many people of goodwill all over the world fear the prospect of low growth, despite the realization that the current form of industrial development destroys the social fabric and environmental systems (ecological) natural communities. Compounding the complexity of the problem of structural unemployment, there is a real possibility of massive automation that replace humans in production chains replaced. A study by the University of Oxford and expects that (robots) are likely to replace at least 50% of jobs in the United States and Europe in the next twenty years.

 

The machines sit people working in emerging economies as well as in China, which has long been a source of job creation globally. According to Martin Ford, author of "The Rise Robots / The Rise of the Robots" best-selling, most routine functions forgive them time with the passage of time. Ford says: "We have to decide now: Osishd prosperous future large-scale or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity?"



The societies approach to growth and development has not changed, the fate of the universe will be destroyed and only the spread of the conflict between the communities; they also face enormous unemployment. There is no way in which you can generate vertical structures for the production, which dominates the current industrial system enough job opportunities, not to mention good jobs, to meet our needs. As I describe in the book "Welfare Economy: Success in a world without growth" (Wellbeing Economy: Success in a World Without Growth), the only way out of this impasse is by enabling people to become producers and consumers at the same time. Or what I call "consumer product" (prosumer). They must be able to most of the things they need through local systems co-production and small-scale production business.



Some can technology help in the development of a new form of post-industrial hand crafts. Thanks to the open source hardware, has become a small business networks can build electronic computers. With the help of three-dimensional printers became craftsmen carrying out business in a manner that may be considered a major challenge to traditional assumptions in terms of the efficiency of the economies of scale.



Changing focus

The revision of the work is crucial for the economies of the industrialized and emerging economies, where there is a sense of loss of jobs even in the presence of significant economic growth, albeit dwindling. For example, Africa is expected to achieve a record of 2.8 billion people by 2060, to become the largest continent in the world. Most of these people will be young and thirsty to work. There is no way for the continent of decent jobs by adopting an industrial model already eliminates jobs globally.

 

The urgent need for a new approach. If welfare economy leads us to rethink the nature of the work by shifting the focus of the production cycle and the amount of consumption to the quality of relationships underlying the economic system. The economy growth drives to mass consumption through non-personal relationship between producers and consumers (which is what robots can do larger) efficiently. The economy must be on the well-being to adopt an ad hoc approach to economic exchanges, in which the quality of human interaction that determines the value.



Let's consider the example of a doctor; from the point of view of growth of the economy, the best doctors who visit the largest possible number of patients in a shorter period of time. In theory, it can lead a person to one of this post. But if measured on the welfare economy, the personal attention to the status of the relationship between the physician and the patient becomes president is the key to creating value.



And Balbdahh, each one of us connects good health care value of personal attention that accompanies this value. The same applies to education: Any sane person will frowns school teachers asking the largest number of teaching students an education of a very fast pace. And common sense tells us that the value is lost through mass consumption of these relationships, even when they increase profits (both for the clinic or school).



Re - thinking in productivity

Productivity is definitely a good thing, but it should not be absorbed on an insight and guidance. Above all, we have to ask what the concept of productivity? The economy is not only a system of social relations. If productivity undermine those relations, the economy itself is collapsing, even when rising profits (at least for someone).

 

There are many existing professional activities on the basis of the quality of performance that can not become more productive; the nature of it. If you asked the leader of the orchestra playing music that goes faster, it will not increase productivity; it will turn the music melody into a nightmare Mamad. The same applies to painters, dancers, barbers, teachers, nurses and the like. That is why it is still the number of musicians in the opera Mozart today is the same as the number that was old when Mozart played Moktuath those. So, what if we measured the rest of the sectors of the economy on this same intuition?



What if the future was not a mechanical robot produces new parts every second, but qualified craftsmen help us repair our cars, upgrade and recycle the best for the duration of her life? What if the future engineer was not a computer running remotely take care of our devices home, but a personal adviser to help families in need of energy production. Is not this would help improve the use of natural resources, from water to the botanical gardens, and the sustainable use of building materials?



Can achieve a circular economy is a double-edged weapon, which are improving production with non-waste production. This can be achieved through the production chains controlled by robots or horizontal network of qualified craftsmen and small businesses that operate in the form of a cooperative member. In the first case, it will control a few people in the world economy. In the second case, everyone will be enabled. Economy can not be a luxury that exists without empowerment, freedom of access, equal opportunities and collective self-investigation. Countries can now developing a mutation that occurs to a new path like that without putting her model of manufacturing models increasingly lack relevance of the century atheist twenty.

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