I've travelled in Nepal in the 90s. they explaine me that people tried to use donkey to transport flour and cement , instead of by human back.
It was stopped because people were furious and block all the mountain. the standar human donkey hold 80kg on his back, if the client is local, and 40kg for foreigned for twice the price. they explained me also that there was beside the rourism, 2 industry in nepla. one is the waterfal energy, but Indian are in monopsome (buying monopoly) and buy for low price... Chines would pay more bur are too far through Tibet. The second resource was carpet, done mostly by kids. when western NGO and US MP asked to stop kid working, they get laid of and it was a local tragedy. it is complex, but i always ask what is the worst, to be a donkey, or to be the one who don't own a donkey. my vision is that trucker have to disapear as it is a dangerous and exhausting job. They should own their truck and be capitalist. The future of capitalism is to deconcentrate it, to make microcapitalism. neither crony capitalism like today, or state capitalism like soviet, just mainsteet Uber capitalism. own your truck, and make a business (there us a truck Uber in Kenya and to work very well) own a flat and rent to tourists own a bot lawn mower and help your neighbours... microbusiness. don't be the donkey, buy the donkey. not so easy, especially when capitalism is crony as usual, and when state enforce regulation to please big pockets, in exchange to safe donkey jobs for the poorer. 2015-06-12 17:42 GMT+02:00 Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson < [email protected]>: > From Eric: > > > > > > http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/06/driverless-truck-to-hit-albertas.html > > > > > By decommissioning drivers of the huge trucks that are used at mines and > switching to > > > driverless trucks in the near future, the CFO of Suncor, a Canadian > mining outfit, > > > implies that the company could save 800 drivers * 200,000 dollars per > year. > > > > This isn't OT, Off-Topic. It's very on-topic. It's a popular Social Issues > Vort topic! > > > > According to the math, this company stands to "save" up to 160 million a > year by getting rid of their drivers. > > > > The article also states: > > > > For Suncor’s roughly 1,000 heavy-haul truck operators, however, the > prospect of driverless trucks has raised more immediate fears of > significant job losses. > > > > One wonders where the calculated savings and increased profits are likely > to end up being reflected in. The open market for fossil fuel products is > not likely to go down one smidgen. So, who is going to end up making a > profit here? I'm sure the 800 drivers about to be laid off have an opinion > on the matter. > > > > Actually, I have mixed feelings on the matter. I hate to say anyone lose > their jobs, no matter how hefty their wages might seem to the average > worker making far less annually. Losing any job sucks even if the job being > performed contributes to the process of increased global warming. > > > > When it comes to job losses and/or reduced pay, thinking about the > economics from a macroeconomic POV casts a very different perspective on > the matter than from a personal micro-economics POV. From an macroeconomic > perspective it boils down to how a nation's collective wealth is being > redistributed, equitably or inequitably. As a society we need to become > better educated on the consequences of how wealth (and power associated > with accumulated wealth) is actively becoming more concentrated within the > bank accounts of the 1%. Automation is actively contributing to this > effect. We can't stop automation, nor should we want to. For better or > worse, it's a done deal. However, if we are going to survive as a thriving > society we will have to find more equitable ways of distributing increasing > amounts of generated automated wealth. Unfortunately, at present the > evidence would seem to suggest that isn't happening. The point being, if a > 1%'er has now moved his goal-post to becoming a 0.1%'er it doesn't make > much sense to consider altruistic notions finding ways to distribute the > other .9% of one's accumulated wealth in a more fair and equitable manner. > > > > Jed has already brought this matter up, but it bears repeating, Martin > Ford's recent book " Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a > Jobless Future" sounds like a good read. > > > > > http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Technology-Threat-Jobless/dp/0465059996/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434121612&sr=1-1&keywords=martin+ford > > > > http://tinyurl.com/op2on8k > > > > Regards, > > Steven Vincent Johnson > > svjart.orionworks.com > > zazzle.com/orionworks >
