Reminder that before we even had internet, air traffic control got planes on and off the ground, factories made products, engineers, lawyers, doctors could all do their thing.
As technology creeps into our lives, some infrastructure becomes obsolete and skills are lost. Things our grandparents could do are a lost art for many of us (honestly, how many of us can actually start a fire or hunt for food).
Not only are basic skills lost, in the name of speed and efficiency, we hand over more and more power to a smaller and smaller handful of people who can wield enormous control over society.
A few powerful oil men can hold an entire country hostage by not supplying oil. A single corporation can shut down the operations of entire cities or airports across the country.
As we hand over more skills and more labour to machines, to an infrastructure most of can neither see nor understand, we are at the mercy of a smaller and smaller group of now immensely powerful people.
No doubt the oligarchy is fine with this, but today is but a small taste of the havoc this tiny group of people can wreak on the entirety of society.
Perhaps we need to think twice about handing all our critical infrastructure over to private corporations. Perhaps we should slow down and say "no" to higher efficiency at the cost of independence.
Perhaps being completely dependent on just a few people is a really crappy idea and bad way to run society.
Today is but a lick of the hell that is to come if we keep letting the oligarchy tell us that efficiency is everything.
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