Ok, I'm missing something here, how does having robotic factories give people jobs? Oh wait, I know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR07vsnWjA
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > *From:* fznidar...@aol.com > > > > > http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/careers/japans-economic-stagnation-is-creating-a-nation-of-lost-youths/19580780/ > > > > > > This is scary, and sadly it is not unlike the way the USA is heading. > > > > However, as an optimist I can see that Japan is poised to lead the way to a > viable solution, which we in the USA can emulate this time around. It would > be a nice role-reversal for them to repay a 50 year old favor (of > re-industrializing their economy, which we first ravaged of course). > > > > The biggest international lie and fiasco of all times is so-called the > “free trade” myth, which we in the USA brought into existence primarily to > “spread the wealth” to an impoverished post-war world - and it did work for > that. Permit me to rant-on about this for a while, as it is entirely > overlooked as a political agenda of anyone. > > > > Japan was a prime early beneficiary of free trade, and they later > reciprocated to allow the rest of Asia to industrialize. But the limit of > international wealth redistribution (via this particular method) has been > reached, and we must now find viable alternatives. But first we must > eliminate this colossal impediment to progress – and ditch free trade > altogether - in order to maintain our place. Enough is enough. We do not > need to continue this level of generosity. > > > > I expect Japan to do this shortly. Call it “isolationism” if you must – who > cares what label is put on it. Free trade is not free and never was anything > more than a way to bring the rest of the world out of poverty – which > methodology was then quickly bastardized by the mega-financiers (like > Goldman Sachs), to maximize their own profits by creating an illusions of > efficiency (via currency manipulation), and to prolong the myth by providing > temporarily cheap goods in place of lost factory jobs. > > > > We have a window of opportunity to change this idiotic structural > deficiency, however, so it is not inevitable that we sink to the depth of > “grass-eaters” - but alas it will probably take more political will-power > than any group here can muster. Japan owes us a favor, and this could be it. > > > > > Honda to the rescue (to be explained). > > > > In my opinion (warped and idealistic as it may be) – this structural change > in eliminating a myth must involve a returning to a neo-industrial society, > where we make a clean break with the past and to actually dump China, Europe > and Japan as trading partners !! and instead we reindustrialize America, > using robotics. This will be painful at first. > > > > Under the new rules of trade, we are not really isolated – so any foreign > country can invest freely here in factories to produce goods they design - > but they will no longer be allowed to import goods made elsewhere. Yes, it > will mean the end of dirt cheap consumer goods, but it will also mean the > end of layoffs, the end of the wild swings in the business cycle, the end of > Mac-jobs, and the end of despair for middle class youth who have no real > future. > > > > Well-paid neo-industrial workers will be able to afford higher priced US > made goods. And they will not be confined to a life of drudgery either. We > can force capitalism to make an important new place for them. The new > paradigm for a factory job, and there can be tens of millions of this type > of job - will be to own, maintain, and supervise a handful of industrial > robots 24/7. We can give every worker a personal stake in this by forcing > business to give equity stakes to workers as the ONLY permitted owner of > robotics. > > > > This will be an “on-call” job and will require a specialized but NOT > high-tech re-education. The skill level will be approximately that of video > game enthusiast or machinist - and much of the “work” can be done at home by > LAN or smart-phone, with occasional real visits to the factory for hands-on > maintenance. > > > > Farm, mining and some service jobs will be similar. The entire economy will > shift to robotics, but not necessarily because they are really needed to > save money – but because they are desirable in the long term for social > goals of full and meaningful work to human robo-tenders. > > > > This will cost more at first – but not as much as a needless war, for > instance. And in a decade it will be much cheaper. Free trade is a lure that > always turns against the importer – when the currency degrades, which is > inevitable and as the dollar continues to do, and that is the “hidden cost > “that is going to kill us if we do not ditch the present system now. > > > > But the one necessary prime rule that avoids conglomerate control at this > level – is that NO non-human entity, including corporations will be allowed > to own robots (to ensure human employment to the robo-tenders). Businesses > must contract out for robotic labor, and the new unions will be the trade > co-ops that operate as middle-men in the three-way process between business > – neo-worker – and lender. These trade co-ops can be run by the neo-Lawyers, > a group which will be forced out of their present work by new laws demanding > arbitration for every disagreement :) > > > > For instance, the “new GM” can produce cars at an assembly plant, but > instead of hiring 5000 hourly workers through a union, they would hire 1000 > robot owners through the new kind of trade cooperative. These 1000 will each > have 5-10 robots that work 24/7 and the factory can produce three times the > normal level of automobiles. Yes, GM is already robotized at one level, so > this only a progression to a certain type of factory-replacement robot. You > may have seen an early prototype called Asimo: > > > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1210345008392050115# > > > > Our technology level for implementation of this is not quite there in 2010, > but in a few years it will be there. Perhaps Japan will initially lead the > way and show us how to pull this off from a top-down structural perspective. > > > > > With political will-power and robotics technology, we can eliminate the > myth of free-trade in a decade and return to a level of wealth not seen here > since the sixties and seventies… which is about the time Honda started > sending over well-made cheap motor-cycles. > > > > Jones > > >
