There is a basic
idea in economics about a threshold of resources to support the mandatory needs
of a member of humanity: food, health, housing, clothing, and this addendum of
participation either through companionship, frivolity, love, empathy, and
presence in our common universe. When we
see a factory of laboring humans swapped for a militia of robots, Capitalism
sees a mathematical formula of lower expenses, firm retains surplus and the
members of humanity expunged are no longer pertinent to the equation. Time’s progression has seen technology at the
fulcrum on a lever to balance the rewards to either firm profits in the hands
of the few in a Capitalist paradigm or to lower the quantity of labor by
collective humanity required to meet that threshold of resources to support the
mandatory needs of humanity in a socialist paradigm.
In Capitalism
unemployment is worthlessness, oblivion.
In socialism one can see the advancements in medicine, agrarian yield
rates, textile durability, and construction capacity and think we can work less
and produce more as long as there is a threshold of firms and labor still
motivated to work. This balance is at
the heart of Marx’s imperfect manifesto.
The best embodiment of that ideal is Democratic Socialism with an
appropriate mix of the private economy in industries of free trade motivation
to labor and socialist application in those of common good.
The answer in the
modern economy is job-sharing, taxes on the aggregation of capital, conservation
of environmental resources, sexual education and healthcare including a shift
to empathetic matriarchal forms of governance to prioritize women’s rights as a
means of birth control, and focusing on systematic infrastructure
investment.
Quality of life is
improving with technology to help us connect, but firms keep moving the line of
forced desperation in order to make the masses think that art, taking time away
from toil to be alive, to not think you are a rat in a 65 life-can-start inescapable
maze to keep you under control and not question authority or the firm keeping
the difference or if that line of desperation is anything but a manufactured
quotient of division. The challenge of
humanity is to switch the preponderance of the resources from accumulating into the accounts of
firms to create balance leveraged by technology to meet the needs of our global
community as we participate in an evolution of empathy.
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