Life is unfair 1: Technologies marches on

Once upon a time, building anything would have required a large amount of time.

Lets take cars for example. Once upon a time everything was done mostly by hand. You had people who hammered the body, people who stuck the engine in et cetera.

Building a car required days or weeks.


Nowadays is mostly automated - you have conveyer belts, robots which perform most actions, and require very little human supervision.


Building a car now requires minutes (if you average it out, it'll probably take less). Same thing across other products, mass production has made the actual human interaction much less, and the amount of products produced much more.


So the question is - why do we still have 5 day weeks? Since we can produce most products in a fraction of the time - making them cheap and requiring less humans - why do we need to work that frequently?

Why can't the workers, who are actually doing the work, get a slice of that? You are literally multiplying the power of a single worker by a large amount - and yet the worker themselves still has to work from 8 to 4 or whatever. The higher ups work less and earn more pay. In fact, the higher you go, the less you work and the more pay you get.


So as earlier stated - life is pretty unfair. Hooray.


The Llama