porath blag

only lazy complacent businessmen are afraid of services that we once paid for becoming free.

google is beginning to dominate the market with free applications that can easily replace expensive ones. google can afford to do this, so why shouldn’t it? businessmen would have you believe it’s stifling the economy to give these (and other) things away (or sell them cheaper than they can). what’s stifling the economy is people complaining that one company can afford to give away (or sell for cheaper) products that have traditionally been expensive. why is this? because people are too comfortable with the way things are. they’re too lazy to imagine what else they could possibly be doing other than their current jobs.

if a job becomes obsolete due to technological advancement, there is no reason to try to “save” that job. it is obsolete. everybody has heard the guy talking about how pretty soon machines are going to be doing everything and that’s so terrible. well, people aren’t born to do manual labor. the less tedious nonsense people have to do, the more time they have available to do more important things.

people are clamoring about the automotive industry as well. it would have evolved past what it is now years ago if it wasn’t for the leaders of said industry stifling innovation because there wasn’t as much money to be made if cars didn’t run on gasoline.

wall street has suffered a huge blow due to investors thinking they can nudge the market around in whatever direction they like in order to make more money.

all these mistakes that have been made to further the ends of businessmen by growing companies too big just because they can (could), setting up extremely risky investment portfolios, giving out sub-prime mortgages, et cetera have culminated in suffering for everyone, even those who weren’t involved at all.

but why did those businessmen do all those things in the first place? well, that’s because we’re all trained to believe capitalism is the greatest possible economic system. well, capitalism only works if you actually meet the demands of the consumers. shoving things down people’s throats is only going to work for so long. screwing everyone else in order to further your own private interests will only work for so long. and now we’re beginning to see what happens when people do those things.

so to bring it all together, people need to open their minds to advancement. previous generations understood these things are necessary. now people have come to look at job obsolescence as something scary, instead of something liberating. we need a paradigm shift in order to progress as a civilization. how that can happen, i don’t know. i just hope i live to see it.

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