The Threat of Auromation and the Dehumanization of Work

(missed blog, February)

For most people, retirement is what we work towards, the end goal. For a handful of others who love their jobs, retirement is seen as the loss of identity, and reason for living. For most though, work is a evil necessity, the one true bane of any existence. If we lived in an automated Utopian world our free time would be spent pursuing or discovering our passions. But we do not live in a Utopian world, and full automation would create a Dystopia, a world full of the dispossessed, living without point or purpose. Automation was not created to save mankind from the drudgery's of labour, but to save money. Business owners would enjoy the temporary benefits of not having to deal with the human element of running an enterprise. But as we've seen with the bailout of the big car manufacturers, those wages must be paid and and that money circulated in the economy, for without it the ensuing unemployed would syphon off of the government coffers. The more work given over to automation, the less workers, the less workers, the less money in the economy.