Zero Work Theory Summary
People looking into the subject of “Future Work or Employment” in the progressing
world today deeply concerned about the
rapid advancement in the field of Science and Technology particularly in the field of the Artificial Intelligent (AI),
resulting in massive job loss, apart from its ethical and other problems. The concerned
experts enthusiastically provide hundreds of solution specially to mitigate the
“technological unemployment”. They promise to the public that the new
technologies will create new jobs as it happened in the history before. However,
what they seems to lack at this time What we need today is, a broad
minded HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, and Scientific vision of the progress of
technology to comprehend this issue. THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH IN THE A.I.
TECHNOLOGY WILL RENDER MOST HUMAN LABOR OBSOLETE, SOONER THAN LATER. THE EMERGING A.I. ROBOT MACHINES
WILL BECOME THE NEW WORLD WORKING CLASS OF THE FUTURE.
In my opinion, the rapid progress in the AI ROBOT
automation resulting in massive job loss in fact; provides the great historical
opportunity that the humankind has been waiting since its beginning. To emancipate from the drudgery of human labor. The SERVITUDE, enslavement,
humiliation that the majority of the
population compelled to undergo by the minority in order to earn their living
i.e. wages, salaries or income. Now, with the progress in the AI technology, we can
gradually get rid and finally
abolish the human labor for wage system and replace it with an equitable
income sharing system. It can begin with the Unconditional or Guaranteed
Income popularly known as the Universal
Basic Income or the UBI.
My book titled “An Alternative to Marxian Scientific
Socialism: The Theory Reduction in Working Hours (RWH); ….” Published in the
year 1981. Today I rename it as Zero Work Theory (ZWT) More of its
details in the links https://bit.ly/2Id6eL0,
http://bit.ly/2eARyEx http://bit.ly/2nR4MAP
The gist of the theory is; “Labor” or work is the
compulsion on humans (originally imposed by nature) to obtain their means of
subsistence. The "human labor relation" is the ROOT-CAUSE OF
EXPLOITATION on man by man. It results it all kinds of subjugation, injustice,
inequality and corruption in the hitherto human society.
According to the RWH
Theory, the AI ROBOTS are the EMBODIMENT of the mankind’s million years of
historical struggle, technological endeavor, and dream to overcome their
labor/work for SURVIVAL. Now it had culminated into complete replacement of the
human labor, jobs or employment.
Its first stage began
with the early humans primitive tools used as the replacement of their body,
limbs in their day to day work for survival. It reached many levels of mechanical development and
sophistication continued for hundreds
and thousands years of ancient to medieval history. The second stage began at
around 18th century with the advent of steam engines electrical motors merging
with the machine tools popularly known as the Industrial Revolution . It most
importantly replaced the human muscle power in the human labor equation with
the unimaginable inanimate energy force unparalleled in the history. These
machine tool although able to do the
hard labor of hundreds of thousands of workers
nevertheless always needed the humans intelligent brain cognitive power
to perform, conduct the given work or duty.
The third and final
stage began with the advent of Semiconductors or the microchip revolution. The
Exponential growth of the microprocessors started the era known as the
Artificial Intelligence. The 21st century AI robots automation started rapidly
replacing humans (biological) intelligence with its human brain like
neurological machine deep learning algorithms. AI today is getting far more
superior to the humans biological brain in the performance of all human work.
Its cognitive learning ability can supersede any intelligent human brain
enabling the robots to render every “paid” human labor completely redundant or
obsolete.
Now, the only way to progress towards the mankind’s destiny
is; A Gradual Reduction in Working Hours aiming towards the complete abolition
of the Wage labor i.e. jobs. However, considering the failure or stagnation of
the reduction of working hour movement in the last decades and the present
worlds rapid AI exponential technological progress and disruption, I realize
that a guaranteed Basic Income or the Equitable Universal Basic Income fulfills
the final objectives of the RWHT. Nevertheless, my views on the UBI not the
same as many of the UBI proponent, who
see it as mainly as an incentive to the poor workers to
work more productively with the additional income and to supplement to their
wages. I argue UBI needs to act as a complete replacement to the wage-labor. “UBI
SHOULD ALLOW THE PEOPLE TO BECOME ECONOMICALLY INDEPENDENT, TOTALLY FREE FROM THE DRUDGERY OF WORK, OUT
OF THE SERVITUDE, HUMILIATION OF WAGE-LABOR IF THEY WANT. This will also
encourage a substantial portion of the laboring population to quit their jobs,
which will positively result in the increase in the employment, wages thereby
further rapid AI automation in the entire industry. The recommendation of an adequate amount of
UBI without having the compulsion of
wage-labor, mean ZERO WORK for the individuals which can achieve the overall
Reduction in Working Hours in the society, thefinal GOAL of the RWH Theory. So
now I prefer the name “Zero Work Theory” (ZWT). I have explained more about
this theory in my blog.
The principle behind the ZWT is that the fruits of
the progress in the science and
technological in the human society
should not be appropriated or concentrated in the hands of only a few
but it is their historical responsibility and every people concerned, to
see to it that the benefit should be equally shared among all members of the
society IN ABUNDANCE. This is inevitable future, the elite
class should understand what is coming, whether they like it or not.
