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Callcentre jobs won't exist in 5 years. Will billions of redundant humans be allowed to keep living?; In the conflagration which follows the mass of humanity will perish while the Rulers hide in their shelters
Topic Started: 24 Aug 2014, 04:43 PM (586 Views)
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Call centre jobs 'will not exist' in five years, says Telstra chief David Thodey

Telstra chief executive David Thodey says call centre jobs across a range of sectors will not exist in five years thanks to the internet and smartphone applications.

Mr Thodey told ABC Radio's Jon Faine in Melbourne on Friday that he understood the "enormous costs" to local communities caused by taking away call centre jobs.

Telstra made 1600 positions redundant in the 12 months ending June 30, 2014.

"More and more you'll use an application on your phone and you'll use the web to interact with us so the future of call centre jobs is less in the future," he said. "In reality Jon [Faine] these jobs will not exist in five years.

"If you think about how you interact with the bank today you don't go into the bank branch that often. And that's going to be the truth about many of the traditional service related jobs – it's going to be more and more digitally done."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/call-centre-jobs-will-not-exist-in-five-years-says-telstra-chief-david-thodey-20140822-107479.html#ixzz3BHkdu0el
The current social norms which many people take for granted (self-determination, democracy, the fundamental equality of all people) were the result of – and were contingent upon – very specific economic and technological conditions.

Those were conditions in which an evolutionary advantage (and that includes economic and military advantage) could be obtained by training individuals to very high levels of skill. Having invested such a vast amount in individuals, Rulers “valued” those individuals. Conversely, those individuals had great bargaining power relative to those who would rule them.

These Modern Era ideals of “individual rights” and “all people being born equal” are just that – modern!! They arose out of those very specific technological and economic conditions.

For most of human history, such ideals would have been regarded as preposterous. The self-evident difference between Rulers and Ruled was taken for granted. As Charles I remarked on the scaffold: “A subject and a sovereign are clean different things”. Or, as Alexander Hamilton told the Constitutional Convention: “All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people … turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government … Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy. ”

Both of these men in their different ways were reflecting the “normal” view of human social arrangement, as it has existed for millennia – before the Modern Era. And we know from the historical record that homo sapiens Rulers had no hesitation in wasting the lives of their fellow human beings – by the thousands. By the millions if they had the need and the opportunity.

Hitherto, however, Rulers have been constrained in their ability to wipe out swathes of their own subjects. Hitherto, they have been dependent on maintaining enough workers and soldiers to sustain their regimes against those who would attack it.

The Modern Era represents the apex of that dependency. The dependence of Rulers on their highly trained workforce rose to unprecedented levels. Rulers were utterly dependent on subjects trained to operate the complex – but not completely automated – machinery of the modern industrial state. And those subjects therefore had the negotiating power to demand a share of the benefits.

It was in response to that very specific – and historically anomalous – set of conditions that the quintessential Modern Era ideals of Equality and Democracy arose.

But there was never any universal law that said that such ideals must continue when the technological and economic environment changed. That is naive “progressivism”.

We are now entering a new era – unprecedented in human history – in which automation and robotics will make the vast bulk of the human race redundant. Not just unemployed, but “redundant” – no longer needed by their Rulers.

And already we are seeing the effects, both economic and political. While the wealthy minority become ever richer, median wages in developed countries like the US have remained unchanged for more than a decade. These are the people who are simply no longer needed.

In the political arena, the Modern Era ideals are being wound back.

Some might trace the beginnings of this reversal to May 1979, and to what historians (if there are any historians) might one day call “The Great Conservative Revolution” which began in Britain and rapidly spread worldwide.

Couched originally in terms of promoting “economic efficiency” this revolution quickly transformed into a platform of undisguised elitism and privilege. Its hallmark policy of privatisation quickly degenerated into a sordid process of handing out monopolies and tax farms to influential Mates.

Meanwhile individuals in the most “advanced” countries are told they must work harder and longer – all in the name of being “competitive” – but they’re not paid any more. The most powerful players are protected by government “bail-outs” – paid for by taxpayers – to ensure they never suffer any losses.

All the gains go to the rich and the Mates of the Rulers.

Technology meanwhile has made it ever easier for Rulers to spy on their subjects, both in the real world – with CCTV, ANPR, drones and other devices – and even more easily in the virtual world.

George Orwell fretted about the potential for technology – in the form of television – to be used as a spying device. Slowly but surely his fears are coming to fruition.

Had true Democracy ever been able to take root, it might have been possible for the subjects to keep the Rulers under control. But it never did. The system of purely elective government (a system which – in a triumph of Orwellian language – we are required to call “representative liberal democracy”!) has degenerated into a duopoly of self-serving politicians working hand-in-glove with their plutocrat Mates.

True Democracy will never come to fruition now. Like Alexander Hamilton, the Rulers and their acolytes tell themselves over and over again how dangerous it would be to allow the “stupid, stinking ignorant scum” to have any effective say in policy . The one thing they will never allow is for the People to exercise any effective power which might overthrow their corrupt regime.

This isn’t going to end well.

As long as the billions of redundant human beings are allowed to go on living they will pose an ever-present threat to the Rulers. As long as they are allowed to go on living there is the risk that they will rise up and overthrow their Rulers.

You don’t need to be Einstein to see how this game must eventually play itself out.

We know from the historical record that homo sapiens Rulers will have no hesitation in removing such a threat – with whatever brutality is required. It is what they are evolved to do.

We also know from the historical record that such slaughter does not usually take the form of Rulers acting directly against subjects. That would risk precipitating the very rebellion they fear most.

Most slaughter takes the form of one regime fighting another in a “just war”, with the subjects used as cannon-fodder or simply dying as “collateral damage”.

The most plausible scenario is that the homo sapiens primates who rule in Washington and the homo sapiens primates who rule in Beijing will eventually come to see the necessity of settling once-and-for-all the vital question of who has the biggest dong.

In the conflagration which follows the mass of humanity will perish while the Rulers hide in their shelters.

And when it is all over they will emerge, make up with one another, and enjoy an empty planet with their needs provided by a largely robotic workforce and a handful of human slaves.

Thus will the ruthless inherit the Earth.
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Its all part of the transmutaion. Its just starting to reveal itself.

Are the dickheads that said it was a ludicrous notion choking on their own stupidity yet.
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Steve
24 Aug 2014, 04:43 PM
The current social norms which many people take for granted (self-determination, democracy, the fundamental equality of all people) were the result of – and were contingent upon – very specific economic and technological conditions.

This is something that has worried me for a while (for the last 30 years).

With each passing generation, it takes fewer poor people to make one person filthy rich.

We are now in a position where we are creating filthy rich people on a daily basis and the number of people required to service those filthy rich people is in decline.

If you look at your average rich person in 1890's England (or France or wherever), they needed 200 staff to support their way of life.

The basic washing machine wiped out 20% of their servant requirements overnight.

Electric lighting meant that you didn't need to pay two people to go around and light all of your candles and lanterns at 6pm and put them out again when you went to bed.

Now, rich people are having to share beaches and fancy restaurants with plebs. The working classes are not needed as much and they are getting in the way.

Ebola anybody?







Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be :?: rising.
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Steve
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For your consideration Mr Panther. Is your job immune?

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