The automation of our society
- As the automation of our society continues –and will continue– to grow, we like to focus on the positive outcomes. Instead of the “gloom and doom,” we see every time we read the latest news headline, we recognize the incredible advancements made in the last couple hundred years that have, in fact, made our world safer, healthier, wealthier and better than it’s ever been before.
- Many focus on the fear-based belief that automation will take away jobs and salaries with machines replacing human beings. But if you look back throughout history, this simply isn’t true. Machinery made the mining industry more efficient –and more importantly– safer by doing the heavy lifting once dependent on human labor. Automobiles made transport time faster, allowing people to allocate their time to more productive things.
As automation increases productivity, the common standard of living rises –and with it, the opportunities of laborers to take on more productive roles. Companies flourish when leaders are able to step away from day-to-day operations to take a big-picture view, and laborers produce more value when they can use their skills in more efficient ways.
- So, yes, on a granular level, people likely lost their jobs. But that led to the development of skills and innovation in other areas. When you look at the big picture, automation isn’t a scary, unknown thing. These perceived “setbacks” are temporary. Humans and society evolve, and they advance.
We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp.
Automation can only bring us into the creation of more wealth for humanity. More resources, fewer costs, less work – all of this leads to freed up quality time for the human beings that will not need to work to survive. We believe in the concept of a world of abundance.