Ok... We have worked as hunters for more than 100,000 years, as farmers for 10,000 years, in manufacturing for 200 years and in services for the last 30 years.
So, what do you imagine we will we be working as next? Service/information providers for the next million years?
Manufacturing has been in decline since the end of World War 2 and thanks to our invention and advancement of the computer it is now becoming all automated and people shifted to services. However, as it turns out with the help of the computer we're also managing to make services more efficient day by day. As we speak they are implementing those check-in machines at airports, automated tellers for banks, self check-outs for retailers etc; all the time, more technological unemployment. I just came back from the airport today and saw this for myself. Our economic paradigm calls for profit and constant increasing demand and growth, but we can't meet those requirements if less and less people have money in pocket to consume from these ongoing effects.
But it seems there is now a category beyond services, and it's the fastest growing segment of our economy today. It is called... unemployment. We are entering the cutting new age of unemployment!!
So as more and more people head into the unemployment sector, we need more and more dole payments. It can't possibly reach the point where 50% of the people are supporting 50% couch potatoes, so there must be a point where the system breaks right? After all, dole payments can't be given out for every soul and western countries are already drowning in debt as it is. Insurrection will do no good either. So if the exponential trends just mentioned have any validity, it doesn't seem that there's much longer until man's artificial economy breaks. Within 20 years?
So when the breaking point comes and the profit mechanism fails, our agriculture can not function, for there is no incentive to work. Suddenly 7 billion people are effectively stranded in cities without food, and hence the extinction of man.
I was thinking, why are my friends and the hordes of young people around me taking our their loans and starting their Bachelors in business, finance and accounting etc? Isn't it more worthwhile studying a Bachelor in survival skills instead? More future prospects and career opportunities for sure, not to mention the perk of being self employed right upon graduation. What course providers are there in Auckland and are they Studylink approved?
NZ is a pretty good place for to be in though I'd say...
...Full throttle till you see god, then brake.
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I'm picking we'll all be in bed by 2100.
Originally Posted by racefactory
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
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