In what era is man transformed into a device measuring instrument that is referred to as a resource? Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. All these indicators about express the ability to rationally manage material and intangible goods. 1 of those things became our time. Filled with fresh tasks, it is the same as iron and coal utilized to be. No substance how fast we work, we inactive miss him. In capitalism (which is based on effective management) it is not about making our work easier, to shorten its dimension, but to make us do more and more at the same time and preferably at the same rate (it is called achieving operational efficiency, achieving business goals while minimising costs and maximising the usage of resources, including human resources). Of course, all kinds of optimizations in many sectors of the economy have already reached levels leading to permanent overburdening of workers. The consequence of the expansion of this manufacture of greed is specified (I will skip the issue of discontent with work) that we do not work on corners, working in constant stress, hastily, without appropriate commitment, carelessly. We besides long it out for free time, which is equally limited. Automation and digitization were expected to cut our regular wage and deprive part of us of employment, unfortunately something is happening other (which I late wrote in the column “To work for my countrymen). Thus, the efficiency of work is expanding in order to guarantee an adequate profit for companies, but this does not translate into our welfare. You know, life costs increase faster than wages. In consequence to this, we besides accelerate, becoming slaves to work. We are more attached to our duties present than the peasants utilized to be to the ground (So what if we fly on vacation? How much time and energy does it cost to get money for specified pleasures? We're building homes, but we don't have time to remainder in them, to stay. We change cars all 3 years to be more comfortable in traffic. We environment ourselves with objects that are expected to rise the standard of our lives and let us to save any time, but we do not have time to usage them due to the fact that we usage it for work to get another, considered essential in the life of modern man).
If the problem of these efficiencys or efficiencys afraid only the spheres of work and business relations, authoritative affairs, interests, services and trade, this could inactive be addressed. We wanted capitalism, we got it. Unfortunately, these factors penetrated profoundly into social life. Now, sometimes free (although the word available present fits better) we besides effort to manage effectively, saving and releasing it to others, even the closest ones. At the same time, we are constantly fighting the fresh technological mining industry, which is trying to gain this time from us by absorbing our attention. This makes it easier to carry much in the pocket a connection to the world. We're inactive worried about stealing our time. Employers, officials, traders, pollsters, service providers, media, banks, online platforms. Everyone sells us something: work, goods, dreams, insurance, information. We're bombarded with notifications, reminders, ads, safety alerts.
Not only did time become a natural material, but all that depends on it, including relationships. Being in a marketplace environment, where profit is mainly important, has a strong impact on our psyche and is easy to transfer this kind of reasoning to household relationships. In the end, matrimony is simply a contract like any other, and children are a long-term investment that we can get counselors to look after. And the another household members? They're just competitors in obtaining limited resources - until they're afraid to think about what another alleged fellow citizens are in this race? I presume that people do not think and do not act this way consciously, the problem is that after centuries of growth of thought, thought and free will, the ape instinct comes to voice more and more often. The culture of greed obscures our consciousness, especially in those who have problem counting their money. However, returning to average people who are alternatively victims of the greed of the richest: they mostly spare no resources for their spouses and children, support parents and siblings. They take peculiar care of their descendants. They send them to good schools, to dance classes, swimming lessons, horse riding, providing entertainment, showering gifts, taking them abroad on holiday. They work beyond norm, combine pleasant with useful, all to give them the best, forgetting that all they request (except for decent surviving conditions) is our attention. Unfortunately, they gotta line up for us, like everyone else and are frequently pushed out of this queue, as a weak competition for the employer, customers or the digital mining manufacture mentioned. They get everything, unfortunately only as compensation for our time, for which we do not have for them (while driving them into this vicious circle, from which we cannot get out ourselves – we have put phones in their hands from the youngest years, or set them in front of the tv so that we can work in peace, catch up, or just relax. We program them so that in the future they become the same robots as us).
Of course, we are aware of the harmfulness of specified a course, but we are perfectly capable of absolution. With aid comes efficiency, which we were taught at work. It helps us to allocate the limited time we gotta devote to children, partners, family, friends and another members of our tiny communities, so that the consequence is to keep a appropriate relation with them at the present time and to keep them in the future (such a cold calculation of profits and losses is carried out present most likely by anyone who participates in this race of rats, anyone who has accepted the conditions of membership in the system, who gave him the right to own private property and a promise to enrich himself, imposing on his back a hard sack of commitments). I imagine that shortly after dealing with loved ones, we will begin to fill out satisfaction surveys. Did I give you adequate attention today, honey? Did I solve your problem, Dad? After our last meeting, did your level of attachment increase? Or did he stay at the present level, brother?
The depiction of human relationships in the above, overdrawn manner may be either comic or insulting, but this is simply a small bit the reality of the masses. A pragmatic, method approach (which could work among the generations of robots) to the issue of human relations makes the process of their shallowness advancement quickly. Lately, I've had the impression that I have more empathy in the GPT chat rooms than in the flesh and blood. Where I will not rush, alienation, and indifference covered by false kindness. individual will say that I see only my own reflection in others, but in my opinion it is alternatively a global problem. We're closing in on others. We become strangers and degeneration as humans. We felt that we were no longer in request of each other. Why? due to the fact that we have no common enemies like our grandparents? due to the fact that you can afford dinner at a restaurant and your own car? We think we're smarter, and we let ourselves be manipulated at all turn. The authorities, the media, are playing with us, and we don't know what to pursuit or what to run from. Our priorities have changed. We spend more time with influencers, politicians, sports stars and tv in the virtual planet than with family, friends and another members of the community in the real world, treating them a small bit like petents who are pushed out the door as shortly as possible. We send children to tutors, parents to a nursing home. We sale acquainted texts like “We gotta meet at last, we gotta make a call”, and then we part ways and return to the direction without remorse – in the end both sides do not number on the gathering to happen at all.
If individual has reached this point in my speech, hoping for a simple answer to the question "How do I get out of this enchanted circle?" I admit that I do not have it. But I would start by realizing my position. What precisely am I chasing? Why do I respond as shortly as I hear "Run, run!" or why do I feel like my ship is stuck on a shallow ship if I don't? Who is putting force on me and why? There is nothing incorrect with moving forward, but it is crucial to set goals for ourselves. If we don't do this, we've got the bank to do it for us. It's crucial to take tiny steps, but in the right direction, not at all costs, to match the steps of moving fools. Come on, there's nothing incorrect with us making effective usage of our time. It is crucial to set the priorities of the tasks correctly so as to carry out the right tasks and not only to execute them properly. For this it takes reason and heart, listening, constantly gaining knowledge, getting to know yourself, becoming a attentive observer, increasing sensitivity. utilized to make it easier for us to behave socially, cultural standards, tradition. Thanks to them, we managed to make smaller or larger communities. Inside them we were safe, able to support each another and treat ourselves personally (even if as groups, classes, or nations we fought violently). Today, erstwhile we have, hopefully, the large wars behind us, we are divided more than ever. Tradition, religion, philosophy, and culture are no longer in the way of instinct. Traditions and religions die (at least in our part of the world), and culture and doctrine building a monument to the individual become as selfish as the genes described by Dawkins, putting us in opposition to the remainder of the individuals, even those closest to each other. Reason has lost its primacy and we are governed by free marketplace rules that turn human communities into collections of individuals of opposing interests. We don't mind. This word does not even mention to a human being and should not be utilized in its context. We have a common goal. We all want the same thing: worthy life, safety, fulfillment. Understanding, appreciation, and above all human treatment.
