Larry Page, in an interview in the Financial Times , said something that many think and few discuss: Computers do the job that millions of people do today.
Being more specific in the world of economics, said:
You can’t wish away these things from happening, they are going to happen [...] You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that.
Still, he said that we should not fear computers because it makes no sense is that people work so hard.
The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job – that just doesn’t make any sense to me. That can’t be the right answer.
Among other things he said that are investing billions to improve the lives of people, quality of life, not your time doing monotonous work. Opting for a radical change in the way we understand the work, although it is clear that this is already part of the economy, politics and philosophy, topics that Google does not invest much.
It is true, from my point of view, the eight-hour no sense. They should charge for productivity, not by time, work done, not for hours in front of a monitor, but to change that is necessary to analyze the way we live and find solutions, alternatives that fit a very different time to of the industrial revolution, when it was established modus vivendi today.
On the other hand, what we expect in the future millions of machines doing all the work while humans look with a caipirinha in hand distributing evenly profit ?. I think not.
