Cyber Feudalism

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Cyber Feudalism

Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 14 июн 2016, 12:45

Victor Marakhovskii writes about our sad future. The planet is rapidly sinking into feudalism - if the twentieth century took place under the banner of equality and workers' power "of the big battalions," the twenty-first century becomes the century again arrogant elitist.

A certain logic here is traced. Indeed, as correctly stated in the article, Western elites have quietly allow themselves to ignore all the traditions of their brand of democracy and pointedly ignoring the voice of the people. I quote:

https://russian.rt.com/opinion/307029-3 ... etnyi-udar

Editor of Investigation publication International Business Times, David Sirota summer of 2015 sent a request to the State Department.

Based on the famous American Freedom of Information Act, Sirota wanted to read the letters that the former head of the State Department and now a presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote on Trans-Pacific Partnership.

He was told that the letter will be made available in April 2016. When the April passed, Sirota said again, where is the freedom of information. And recently I received a polite letter that Clinton's letter to him will be made available - in full accordance with the Freedom of Information Act - November 31 this year.


If you look at the calendar, you will find that in November, just 30 days - that is, the date "31 November" is not there. But even if this date and there, it still will come only after the presidential election, when the documents on TTP will no longer be so important.

Why elite felt his power again?

Because the mass has ceased to be relevant. Remember the famous Soviet ankedot about personnel policy?

There are two directors canneries, Russian and Japanese. We talked. The Japanese said: so and so, do canned fish, 10 thousand tons per year. Russian responds happily - and I also do canned fish, also 10 thousand tons per year is obtained.

- Well it is necessary! I have six people working at the plant. And you?

Russian does not know what to say. He will say that 800 people work, it will be an embarrassment and disgrace Soviet industry. He speaks:

- And I have seven!

The next morning, again found in the hotel lobby. Russian looks fine, but the entire Japanese skhudnuvshy, circles under the eyes, the hair vsklocheny. He runs to the Russian:

- Look, I'm all night could not sleep, thinking. What makes you the seventh?


Now this sounds anecdote is rather sad than funny. We also live in capitalism and factory managers are also trying to cut staff as possible. Quite often, it is clear that, where a year ago, worked 5 thousand people are now enough fifty after the installation of new equipment.

More importantly, what is the same is true of the army. When in the thirties of the French Foreign Minister proposed to Stalin to establish relations with the Pope, Stalin raised an eyebrow in bewilderment: "Oh! Dad! And how many divisions he? "

At that time, indeed, the number of the army was crucial: a small army, no matter how advanced it may be, had no chance against the huge armies of the great powers.

Now, again, the situation is different. The local conflicts, as we see in the news, take part quite limited contingents, well, in the case of really serious war talk of nuclear weapons - which, again, no longer requires millions of soldiers for their service.

Single nail in the coffin of mass slaughter TV with internet access. One hundred years ago, the global magnitude of the stars sang for thousands of spectators, the other in a large opera house - is not placed in a theater, or had to wait for their turn, or walk on the performances of other stars. Now on YouTube can be immediately broadcast to billions. Record for hits on YouTube - famous Gangnam Style by Korean artist - has scored 2.5 billion views.

The same applies to a film actor, or, say, to the teachers. A talented speaker is no longer locked in a dusty university audience, he can at the same time to train hundreds of thousands of students, while computer technologies allow him to give good feedback - estimating, for example, the course of the progress of their pets.

Another problem brought it over the Hand of Vengeance labor cards for professional drivers. Robotic car control systems have already been established and ottestrovany, something where robots are already quite legally ride around on public roads.

It is worth noting that the unmanned vehicles drive safer than familiar to us paunchy guys in sweat pants. As far as I know, the robots naezdili already millions of kilometers, and for all this time their fault was only one accident - the robot began to rebuild, thinking that it will miss the bus, but the bus did not miss:

http://www.bbc.com/russian/news/2016/02 ... _car_crash

It will take 5-10 more years, and live in large drivers will lose his job. Judge: truckers have to pay, say, 50 thousand rubles per month, plus taxes, plus the salary of the head, plus the salary of the personnel office, and so on. Total on the circle is unlikely to get less than one million rubles a year.

For the money trucker runs approximately 160 hours per month - and the remaining 560 hours trucker rests, sleeps, eats, and, in general, has been the owner of the company with unnecessary things. If we replace the living robot driver, we expect that the robot will work every 720 hours per month - 4.5 times more intense than a living person.

Total for one year only robotic driver gives us a saving of 4.5 million rubles: this is without taking into account the savings on a wagon, which is in such hands, and starts to work for 24 hours a day.

It is believed that when these technologies really get to our roads, there will be a long time to oscillate owners of transport companies? I believe that short time, it is very save weight.

Go ahead. Robots replace workers, drivers, salesmen, security guards, gardeners, cleaners and even a bunch of specialties. If the driver is not the work of the former, it means that he has no money. If he had no money, so ... he can not spend the money on gatherings in cafes, on a guided tour, a new car in the end.

Thus die whole segments of the business - even those in which, seemingly, robots replace human is that they can not, such as hairdressers, for example. After all, the hairdresser should pay the money, and money is not the unemployed. Interestingly, out of work and will remain our "creative class" - for creative class maintains a mass audience, and the mass audience will quickly become insolvent.

If events go according to this scenario, the entire economy rather quickly split into two unequal, separated from one another circuit.

We will see the outline of a new aristocracy - the owners of factories, newspapers, parahod - and a narrow layer of the circuit serving the masters. Instead of thousands of mechanics who mend now! "Frets" and "Renault", remain at work and the money is only three locksmith, but to fix it will only be "Bentley" and "Rolls-Royces", as the owners of inexpensive cars do not have the money nor gasoline or the service garages.

We also see a huge loop of the unemployed - who are no longer needed aristocrats. And their position, adjusted for the technology is unlikely to be different from the position of the peasants of medieval Europe, when "Jacques-sucker" was so maloznachim and powerless, even cynical British usually found in himself to him some sympathy.

Well, you say, but there are choices out there, you can select the right candidates who vote for the imposition of taxes on the rich. These taxes will go to the poor, who will thus have enough money to maintain their way of life, and even to engage with what some developing skills such as painting and poetry.

I agree, is that in some countries - such as Russia, for example - the greed of the elites and indeed limited to the popularly elected authorities. But ... if it continues for a long time? As correctly pointed out at the time of Mao Zedong, the rifle gives birth to power - and "rifle", as we have seen above, will be in the hands of the elite, with the rifle except in the hands of the elites will be more and wallet.

The current situation is unstable - as soon as it becomes clear that the masses no longer need the elites, their interests will no longer be considered. Actually, we have already seen in the example of the West, that the development is moving in this direction. Politicians have less and less value is attached to the opinion of the people.

As already noted above, it is vitally important agreements TTP and TTIP were not even shown any Europeans nor the Americans, nor the inhabitants of Asian countries. Elites agree with each other over the heads of those citizens who, it would seem, they have chosen. No morals, solid political economy.

Next question. Are we satisfied with the road on which we are moving?

Personally, I - no. I have read enough literature on feudalism, to feel a burning desire to stay away from this social order away. However, I have yet to see the humanity of special options.

Of course, even the elites will need talented doctors and talented scientists - hence, the elite will have to invest in a good general education. Also elites clearly do not want to live surrounded by starving outcasts, therefore, some of the unemployment benefit will be introduced everywhere, and these benefits will be high enough to live in a sort of minimum comfort.

However, this is probably "pluses" of the new system and be limited. Citizens will receive some "unconditional income" - high enough to live around the life that now live negros in the American ghettos. Work for the common people will not have any opportunities to save money, they also will not be.

The most talented will probably select More in schools and to take "up" in gipoelitu. For other legitimate social elevators are boarded up tight.

Pleases me in all of this is only one. Technologies are developing too fast, so you can more or less reliably predict the future. Who knows, maybe in 20 years we will laugh at our current expectations as a laugh today over fears of the researchers of the XIX century, it is expected that after some time, London will be buried under a thick layer of horse manure.
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