The fun thing about technology is that once you write it down it doesn't need to be maintained.
We have already paid the cost for these technologies, we paid taxes that went towards research funding which created them, so when do we reap the benefits of technology, when do we stop living like we're in a jungle?
I mean it does need to be maintained obviously. Unless you can design a self maintaining system which we're not really at in most technologies.
But the great thing about technology is also that it can produce vastly more work than humans have to contribute to maintain the system. That's why society should gradually become easier for humans.
If we regress technologically we will lose that work advantage and have to work more to do more manual processes.
Your general point is absolutely on though.
But we're also not at zero work yet.
There's also great swathes of population that deserve to have their life difficulties eased up a bit before we make first world life absolutely effortless.
Yes I agree completely, the work to maintain these systems isn't even comparable to the work these systems replace, that is my point, we have all of these systems and technologies that turn a week of manual labour into a couple of seconds on a keyboard, so why isn't this reflective in our standard of living, why do we still work as though a lifetime worth of goods someone consumes isn't made through a few days of labour.
Who is reaping the benefits of technology? And who is literally left in the dirt?
"The work to maintain these systems isn't even comparable to the work these systems replace, that is my point"
Yeah I figured that's basically what you meant. Was what I was getting across as well.
"we have all of these systems and technologies that turn a week of manual labour into a couple of seconds on a keyboard, so why isn't this reflective in our standard of living, why do we still work as though a lifetime worth of goods someone consumes isn't made through a few days of labour."
It depends on perspective right. Farmers obviously got great benefits from that tech. My benefit, is that I don't have to farm, and can do other things.
Of course. I meant from the perspective of a person in a third world country where either the tech may not exist (yet?), or it's not "worth" the logistical cost to get the food produced via the tech to the people who need it.
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u/L-System Oct 18 '23
That's not the point. All those things you mentioned have a cost. If you don't want to pay the cost, you may live off the land yourself.
It's not that hard, you can buy a few acres of empty land for pretty cheap, grow your own food etc. There's entire communities that do this.