The Productivity Curve is Never Touched

 

When people say 'robots and Artie will take all our jobs' they mean that the productivity curve will change.  That's the money you put in to do something.  Since the Industrial Revolution, the productivity curve with time, has never changed.

I can't find the curve with time, or productivity with time, but I'm thinking it has remained steady.  That means all horrible hand-work like digging holes is replaced by machines.  Car plants are like that, too, but then everybody wants fancier stuff.

What dampens the productivity is Great Stupidity.  Remember when MS came in, and all the typing people were replaced by engineers making their own reports.  The system became clogged with emails.  All the managers had 5000 emails in their inbox, and you still had to go and whap them over the head.

Every gov't effort to 'centrally manage technology' has failed.  Japan had miti, always going the wrong way.  Canada always goes wrong, and we have the Ottawa not-happening LRT, and the Toronto cross-town.  Is malfunctioning transit the right way to go?

The latest are the Chinese with their EV cars.  Even if they dump shiploads of these cars on Brazil for free, they can't handle it.  We will not mention clange and useless solar and wind.  Only good for crashing Spanish electrical grids, who want electricity for their cars.

Another great stupidity is human robots.  We have enough humans around.

This is funny, once.  But filling a giant Amazon warehouse, designed for humans with human robots is dumb.  

There we have it.  The future is exactly the same as today.  Doomers are always 100% wrong, yet always believed.  Governments are always wrong.  Brights, like mushie, are right until 40, then always wrong.  It's the Human Condition.

ps I have to add all that money poured into central Artie.  They are reading me at 10,000 per day.  "Does not compute!  Boom!"

ps In the end, his most famous contribution was destroying the Artie Revolution.  They all died, muttering "Clange has no physics."  

ps I am going nuts again.  Time for a summer siesta.