Man continues on

While I touched on this my last post, I am glad I get a chance to elaborate on what would, and what will be necessary once jobs have the opportunity to be taken. While others may see this as a problem that needs solving, one who looks at our past to solve our future can see that humans will once again be asked to adapt. This time, however, what a beautiful adaption this could be.

Once we have the capability to take the idea of jobs away, the human race must look at why they created certain ideas. For starters, the idea of a ‘job’ was created for the idea that there is a task to be done and the only way it will be accomplished will be through the efforts of a human. This idea, if computers are programed correctly, could disappear all together.

This brings up another interesting idea, the idea of government. For centuries people have feared the power of this body of people we allow to have power over us in order to assure essentially that humans are happy. Through this the idea of currency and hard work sprouts. While we have some what made these ideas work, if all that is needed is computers, technicians educated enough to program these machines and laborers to build them, that’s all that there should be.

The “solution” to this so called “problem” would be to look towards Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” and destroy currency all together. Everyone shall have their needs met due to the fact that the government can meet them. For these needs being met, people shall abide by the moral laws the population decides on. If one breaks these, he shall be the mindless drone creating each of the machines.

As for furthering human minds, education will become as Buddhist Tibetan Monks view it. Because their food, clothes and housing is paid for and all they must do is abide by their monk hood, they study as much and as little as possible. This will ensure that the minds that desire knowledge will have all they please, and those who don’t, fade. Soon what separates humans from each other from each other is their education, which becomes more and more attractive. Soon only the brilliant minds get to reproduce, therefore creating a better human. 

Technology brings evolution, not agony

American society, along with most societies around the world, has been programed for centuries to focus on one’s niche or job ever since we evolved into creatures who have the mental capacity to use tools to accomplish jobs that are difficult for the average human. While considering this, the idea of having near future computer technology replace every niche we have created from the blacksmith to the doctor. In fact, much controversy has arisen due to this fear sparking idea. However, these fears can easily die as soon as one looks at the evolution of man in a chronological order and look to what the next step should be, according to our past steps.

What I mean by this is that what humans have done best through our evolutionary paths is make things easier for us by the use of an idea or object, something we named a “tool”. As early civilizations looked up to the bright objects in the sky, much fear was evoked, therefore to settle this problem, humans created religion to explain the unexplainable, something that still happens today in every society around the globe. Then, we needed to move objects much heavier than we could carry across large distances, so we invented the wheel and people stopped carrying things alone. Finally, we wanted a way to connect humans better, and the birth of the internet helped us with this.

We also have the tendency to always need to get better at what we do now, something to be proud of, of course. This explains complex religions to explain more complex questions, cars and trucks to move anything we please, and now the idea that computers have solved more than what we intended on them helping will force us to evolve once more. The idea of technology ‘taking’ our jobs needs to bring a revolution of evolution to our race, we need to rethink the purpose of jobs, governments and economy all together. If humans can create machines to do our hard labor and tedious tasks for us, we can kick back, make sure every human gets their needs and wants met, and finally advance to the great creatures we can be.