H
Hevelton Araujo
[Originally posted 2/5/1998]
>>Carl Ramer wrote:
>>I tend to disagree with a good portion of the above. The Industrial
>>Revolution isn't just starting, it's been here through all of my lifetime.
>> <clip>
Industrial Revolution has been around long before any of us got here. But never in history have things (in general) changed as fast as we are seeing today. And, IMHO, it tends to change even faster. I agree that the enough basic resources
(food, water, etc) are the essentials for a future society. But you touched on an very important point, which is "sufficient income available to the population to acquire those commodities". Automation, IF IT DOES REALLY COST JOBS, causes the newly automated company to increase its quality and/or productivity and, thus, to increase its profits (some of this increase comming from the "income" of the workers
who lost their jobs). Imagine this being done all over the world, we are talking about more wealth concentration, making the "income" not sufficient for all the people. What, IMHO, has to be done is to find other ways to distribute the wealth in order to have a stable (at least in today's standards, which, IMHO, are very low) society. Someone has pointed out the education is the key that answers this problem. I personally agree with that.
Best Regards,
Hevelton Araujo Junior
IHM Engenharia e Sistemas de Automação LTDA
[email protected]
PS.: Opinioes are my own, etc ...
>>Carl Ramer wrote:
>>I tend to disagree with a good portion of the above. The Industrial
>>Revolution isn't just starting, it's been here through all of my lifetime.
>> <clip>
Industrial Revolution has been around long before any of us got here. But never in history have things (in general) changed as fast as we are seeing today. And, IMHO, it tends to change even faster. I agree that the enough basic resources
(food, water, etc) are the essentials for a future society. But you touched on an very important point, which is "sufficient income available to the population to acquire those commodities". Automation, IF IT DOES REALLY COST JOBS, causes the newly automated company to increase its quality and/or productivity and, thus, to increase its profits (some of this increase comming from the "income" of the workers
who lost their jobs). Imagine this being done all over the world, we are talking about more wealth concentration, making the "income" not sufficient for all the people. What, IMHO, has to be done is to find other ways to distribute the wealth in order to have a stable (at least in today's standards, which, IMHO, are very low) society. Someone has pointed out the education is the key that answers this problem. I personally agree with that.
Best Regards,
Hevelton Araujo Junior
IHM Engenharia e Sistemas de Automação LTDA
[email protected]
PS.: Opinioes are my own, etc ...