PATRIARCHY VS. FEMINISM: Evolutionary Mating "Game Theory"

 

BASIC PRIMISE

          1 The conflict between men and women in the human society today, can be best explained “Scientifically” by the Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT), a subset of Game Theory. The following is a Brief Version of this Evolutionary Mating Game Theory (EMGT).                                                                                                                                          Game Theory stands on the BASIC PREMISE; “Individuals in the population evolve by adopting different strategies in interacting with each other for survival and reproduction that can become prevalent in a population.”                                                               Game theory contains three main components; 1.PLAYER,  2.STRATEGY        And  the  3.PAYOFF. 

          The Mating Game Authorities are the Elite Ruling Class who carry-out the evolutionary rules of the GAME. The Individuals or the Group of “Players” have their own Strength and Weaknesses and use their STRATEGIES accordingly to maximize their PAYOFF’S and minimize its Cost.

THEGAME THEORY PRINCIPLE      

          2(i) The Main Principle of the Game Theory is: There is No Such Moral Principles such as;  Good and Bad, Right and Wrong or Justice and Injustice Except the Game “PAYOFF’S”.  “Deception” Plays a Pivotal Role in It. Whichever “STRATEGY” That Yields Good Scores (Payoff’s) in the “Competition” will Win the GAME. The Winning Strategy will be adopted by the others thus carried forward into future generation as the “Dominant” strategy, other strategies which end up  in bad Payoff’s (Cost, Consequences) will be ELIMINATED. In one sentence, this theory is all about; “SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST”.

          Nash Equilibrium; Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS); Grim Trigger Strategy, Dominant Strategy; Prisoners Dilemma; are some of the most important strategies employed in this ‘Evolutionary Mating Game Theory’.

VIOLENCE IS KING: PEACE AND HARMONY HIS QUEEN.

          2(ii). Violence and Peace Plays the Most Important Role in the Broader Societal Game Playing. This subject of “violence”  can be very Controversial As well as Emotional and Sensitive subject therefore it should be Told Concisely. 

          RULERS Of the STATES,  the Authorities use violence Against the Invader Strategy as their Dominant Strategy to Establish Peace and Harmony in the Society.  Grim Trigger Strategy, Nash Equilibrium and the Stable Strategies all follow from it. Evolutionary Mating Game between Men and Women Also Obey the Same Rules.

3 NASH EQUILIBRIUM

          In the Evolutionary Mating Game Competition between the sexes, nature assigned different attributes, privileged position to both, men and the women. In the evolutionary game process, it made them dependent on each other known as the “Nash Equilibrium” to ensure the future survival and propagation of their species. It gave a charming effeminate biological body for females suitable for seducing males to mate with her, including the biological design for child bearing, nurturing and taking care of the baby. On the other hand it gave a physically strong muscular testosterone filled body to men with better intelligence to PROTECT and PROVIDE especially for their women and children. On the surface this arrangement may look like; the men’s stronger physical strength and intelligence is a great advantage over the women’s weaker physical strength. However due to the Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) working through the Nash Equilibrium strategies balanced both sexes fairly as Zero-Sum game. The ESS explained in the following.

4 EVOLUTIONARY STABLE STRATEGY (ESS) (Part-i)

          In the Evolutionary Mating Game, it does not take long time for women with their feminine charm to lure the males for mating with her. Similarly it does not take long time to men to impregnate the women, perhaps a few days, hour’s even minuets. So a man seems to have the advantage of impregnating as many women in a shortest period of time and get as many of his offspring’s (Payoff).  On the other hand it takes many months for a woman to carry on the pregnancy for a successful child birth. Therefore the mating cost seems higher to her and the payoff higher to him.   (Continued in Part-ii)       

          (Part-ii) However, due to their long pregnancy period, most females are not available to males for mating most of the times. It results in, only the Alpha males in the population will get the opportunity to mate with the available females. It leaves most Beta males without any mating opportunity. Most important of all; almost all the women are assured of getting the payoff’s (offspring’s) but NOT for most men. Therefore, males in the population should go declining.  However, the Nash Equilibrium of the evolutionary game theory brilliantly explains why and how an equal balance of both males and females are maintained due to games dynamic strategies mainly Intra-sexual vs. Inter-sexual, hawk and dove strategies. competition, cooperation, collaboration, Grim-Trigger-Strategy including the  DOMINANT Strategies. All these strategies play significant role keeping both the male and female population fit and balanced which is popularly known Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS). It can be perhaps compared to Law of Justice.

5 INTERPLAY BETWEEN  ESS AND GRIM TRIGGER STRATEGIES: 

          Even though, the long period of pregnancy and its responsibility made a woman to have only a limited number of offspring’s (payoff) nevertheless it ensures her a good Payoff since she is absolutely sure that the baby to whom she gives birth is hers.  Therefore, she can undoubtedly invest on her child’s best survival. However, it is not the same for the man who is protecting and providing for the woman and her children. She might have “deceptively” mated and got impregnated by the other males. So the child on whom he makes all his life’s investment might not be his own. This poses a major threat for the survival of his individual gene to get into the future gene pool.  Therefore, he must adopt the “Grim Trigger Strategy” by constantly remaining vigilant to dissuade her not to secretly mate with other males and jealously guard and protect her against those marauding males to make sure she only carries his own gene, if not, she will lose her payoff in the form of his protection and material support.  Therefore providing and protecting his females and her offspring’s, guarding his territory and its resources would ensure better payoffs and became the Dominant male strategy for the survival of the species in the Evolutionary Stable Strategy of the mating game.

6 MARRIAGE: NASH EQUILIBRIUM OF PATRIARCHY

(PS. In the proceeding sections, I have taken the liberty in describing this theoretical subject matter mostly in a colloquial language instead of the exact Game Theory “terminologies”, mainly to make it short and easy. It contains only the main points relevant to the subject matter. Hope readers will understand it.)      

          In the hundreds and thousands of years of their evolutionary history,   human species carried forward their Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) popularly known as MARRIAGE. It was a combination of “Dominant” Strategy with the “Grim Trigger strategy” that immediately brought a kind of “Nash Equilibrium” making it a kind of “Zero-Sum Game” for both. Fidelity and loyalty of woman toward her man became its most important aspect. Women’s disloyalty insubordination met with disciplinary actions. Infidelity or adultery severely punished with physical violence to the extent of killing. Today it is called as MALE DOMINATED “PATRIARCHAL” society. Religion, Culture, and the LEAGAL (Legislature) System evolved around it, as the very important part of Dominant Game Strategy throughout the human history till the modern times.

7 MALE DOMINANCE: WOMEN’S SUBORDINATION

          In marriage or otherwise the husband or man had the Privileged Dominant position against his wife due to his better physical strength and intelligence to control over her. This dominant position enabled the man to discipline and punish his wife whenever she becomes disobedient to him.  Woman’s insubordination, disloyalty, deception to her man considered as the Misuse of the privileges (protection and material support) given to her by the man. Therefore, the husband is justified in severely punishing his wife as the most effective way to make her obedient and follow the rules.   Even a mere threat of severe physical punishment and withdrawal of his protection and support made the woman cringe in fear and become fully subordinate to her man and comply with all his wishes.  

8 JUSTICE IS BLIND

          There was no special legal provision for women for the redressed of their grievances of domestic dispute violence against men like today. All of it treated under the common law. It becomes very difficult in the olden days for women to prove their domestic dispute, violence  rape issues against the men before the courts. The courts decided under its principles of “impartiality” based on the merits of evidences and the witness presented before it. Men mostly won due to “Lack of Evidences” against them. The court of justice is incapable of seeing the secret facts hidden behind the surface therefore people call; “JUSTICE IS BLIND”. Women lacked any such resources available for the modern women to seek justice under law. Therefore, remaining subservient to man’s wishes became the best strategy for women to make it a kind of  “Zero Sum” game.

9 FEMINIST ARGUMENT ON THE HISTORICAL MALE DOMINATION

          Looking back at the history of the evolutionary human society, the feminist today claim that it was and still is a Male Dominated Patriarchal Society. They say that the men in the history so far grossly misused their privileges and victimized women in the society. There is absolutely no social justice for the women. However, the historical men will defend themselves by saying; there never been any such gross injustice to women. Women in their times were treated well with respect, honour and adoration (see the religious female deities) and most importantly given privileges such as the MAN’S PROTECTION WITH MATERIAL SUPPORT TO THEM. However if the women misused their privileges, men were given right to prevent it by using whatever physical power as his “domination” strategy and other means (strategies) available at their disposal to punish and discipline the women.  Ironically, today we see the table has turned quite the opposite. Men claim to have become victims of the Male Gender Biased Laws. We may continue the extension of this debate later. 

10 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PARADIGM SHIFT, WOMEN’S POWER

          The coming of Industrial Revolution of the 18^th century and all its proceeding Technological Revolution ushered in a PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE DYNAMICS OF THE Established Nash Equilibrium of the Evolutionary Mating Stable Strategy (ESS).  It brought in tremendous benefits to the human society, especially for women. The new science and technological inventions, tools made the human work physically less demanding therefore it became easy for women to enter into the existing labor force of manufacturing, services and mass production.  The new appliances, gadgets, household devices freed women from many of their household chores and made it possible for them to join in almost all job sectors en-masse. Women gained far more economic independence. MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL; THE INVENTIONS OF BIRTH CONTROL PILLS AND OTHER SUCH DEVISES HELPED WOMEN TO FREE FROM THEIR BIOLOGICAL RISK AND COMPULSION OF PREGNANCY SO REMOVED MOST OF THEIR SEXUAL CONSTRAINTS AND INHIBITIONS. IT DISRUPTED THE ENTIRE “NASH EQUILIBRIUM” OF “EVOLUTIONARY STABLE STRATEGY”  IN THE FUTURE MATING GAME DYNAMICS FOREVER. 

11 INVASION OF WOMEN’S  RIGHT MOVEMENT                                                        DOWNFALL OF OLD PATRIARCHY

          The ongoing Capitalist Reforms with its focus on women’s education and later the Universal Suffrage enabled women and their promoters to express their “Gynocentric” views openly challenging the established Nash Equilibrium of the old Patriarchal system, demanding equal rights for women. It was the emergence of a Invading Gynocentric Strategy against the old Patriarchal ESS to gain political power, popularly known as the “Women’s Equal Right or “Feminist” movement today.  This New Invading strategy threatened to overthrow the old patriarchal Nash Equilibrium disrupting the established Evolutionary Stable Strategy.

12 COLLABORATION COOPERATION COEXISTENCE NEO-PATRIARCHAL  GYNOCENTRIC   STRATEGY

          At first, the Old Patriarchal capitalist ruling elite felt threatened by the emerging Gynocentric women’s entry, invading into their male Patriarchal domain. However they soon realized they can greatly gain by the Collaboration game strategy. The Elite ruling class desperately needed cooperation from the feminist Gynocentric lobby to get the women’s vote bank to broaden their political base to strengthen their ruling power control.  They agreed to COEXIST by Compromise and Cooperation by giving in many of the feminist anti-male demands. New “gender” laws sanctioned in the male dominated parliament and adopted by the male dominated justice system and enforced by the male dominated law enforcement system giving enormous power to women at the expense of men’s right. The Neo-Patriarchal Gynocentric but Male Dominated Elite ruling class in collaborations with the Women’s Right movement adopted the new feminist GYNOCENTRIC policy doctrine for establishing a new Evolutionary Stable Strategy in the Evolutionary Mating Game.

13 GYNOCENTRIC DOCTRINE

          SOME OF THE BASIC UNDERTAKINGS OF THE FEMINIST GYNOCENTRIC DOCTRINE TODAY, AS FOLLOWS:-“MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUAL”. “WOMEN ARE AS CAPABLE AS MEN IN EVERY RESPECT”. “ALL MEN IN GENERAL ARE RAPIST AND ALL WOMEN IN GENERAL ARE THE VICTIMS OF THE MALE GENDER VIOLENCE.” WOMAN HAS THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE ANY KIND OF SEX IF SHE “CONSENT”. THERE ARE NO MORE SEXUAL TABOOS WHEN THE WOMEN CONSENTS IT AND SHE CAN WITHDRAW HER CONSENT ANY TIME SHE FINDS IT CONVENIENT. WOMEN’S WORDS SHOULD BE BELIEVED WITHOUT QUESTION, NO EVIDENCE NEEDED. ANY MAN CAN BECOME A WOMEN AND VISA-VIS ANYTIME IF THEY WISH UNDER ITS GENDER FLUIDITY DOGMA. CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT THIS NEW GYNOCENTRIC DOCTRINE IN THEIR CLASSROOMS SO THEY BECOME FEMINIST IN THE FUTURE TO PROSECUTE WHOEVER WORKS AGAINST THE GYNOCENTRIC DOCTRINE. 

14 ORWELLIAN DYSTOPIA

          Even though the society appeared to have become very gynocentric, it basically remained male dominated, ruled by the Neo-Patriarchal morals at its core, made possible by the collaborative, cooperative game Strategy adopted by the Neo-Patriarchy in their Competition with the gynocentric feminist which earned rich Payoff’s for the ruling elites class as a whole and ensured that the rich always remain in power with their affluence in abundance. However they did not want to share most of their class privileges with the entire population to keep the majority population under their control. To distract the population from seeing the reality of the social inequality, they adopted Orwellian slogan that said; “ALL ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”. They said women are more trustworthy than men therefore women should be believed and given special privileges over the men and encouraged to use it whenever possible. It created a kind of Orwellian dystopian totalitarian society. “Political Correctness”; “Doublespeak”; Propaganda; Surveillance; Censorship; Punishment and Torture are some of its main characteristics.

15 THE GYNOCENTRIC GENDER LAWS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

          Let me deviate slightly from the principles of Game Theory to see the reality through the lance of “Social Justice”. It is generally agreed that women are physically weaker than men. (Despite the feminist claim that women are equally capable of performing all the tasks that men do.)  Men have better physical strength and intelligence as their male evolutionary privilege. Therefore, when a woman competes with a man it is generally easy for the man to overpower the woman by his physical strength, resorting to physical domestic violence, rape even killing.  Therefore, under the justice point of view, women essentially need lawful protection from the male aggression especially in their marriage partnership and other live in intimate relation. Only strong legislations in favour of women to counter balance the male gender privilege can prevent this historical male injustice (aggression) in their conflict. It will establish a new Nash Equilibrium (equity) into their gender Competition and it all sounds logical under the Social Justice theory.

16 ENTRY OF MEN’S RIGHT MOVEMENT (MRM) COUNTER STRATEGIES

          However the problem in this “Social Justice” logic comes to the forefront  when it is pointed out that women are using this new ‘Gender Law’ privileges deviously or deceptively  (misusing, false accusations, court cases) and making enormous gains at the expense of heavy damage and cost to the men’s life. Men called it “male gender biased laws” and started their protest. Several Men’s Right groups as counter strategies emerged; names like MRA, Fathers Right, MGTOW, INCEL, CHAD and many more.

17 INDEPENDENT OBSERVER “GRAPES ARE SOUR”

          Let us bring a counter argument to the Men's Right Movement (MRM) from an Independent Game Observer, who may comment as the following:  “Men have grossly misused their male privilege such as physical strength and economic power since millennium which still continues today. Men also use their privileges of physical strength, economic power deceptively whenever they can to win the court cases. Men commit all sorts of “Crime Against Women”, including  Domestic Violence,  rape and murder and deny doing it when caught, pretend innocence to get away with it.  Therefore, there is nothing wrong in women using their law privileges deceptively to their own advantage to win and get away with it.  Men are now calling it “grapes are sour”. The question for men in this contest is; can they claim that they honestly don’t misuse the laws deceptively as the women do for their own advantage to win? If they say no, then they should learn it from the modern women; “getting successful while remaining safe is the secret of wining”. Good and Bad, Right and Wrong or the “JUSTICE” is mainly decided by the GAME’S “Payoff”.

18 LOOKING AT IT THROUGH THE LENCE OF GAME THEORY :

          LET ME RESTATE THE MAIN PRINCIPLE OF THE THEORY ONCE AGAIN: THERE IS NO SUCH MORAL PRINCIPLES LIKE; “GOOD AND BAD”, “RIGHT AND WRONG” OR “JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE”; EXCEPT THE GAME “PAYOFF’S”. “DECEPTION”  PLAYS A PIVOTAL ROLE  IN IT. WHICHEVER “STRATEGY” THAT GAINS MAXIMUM “PAYOFF” WITH MINIMUM COST (LOSE) IN THE “COMPETITION” WILL WIN. THE WINNING OR “INVADING” STRATEGY WILL BE ADOPTED BY THE OTHERS THUS CARRIED FORWARD INTO FUTURE GENERATION AS THE “DOMINANT” STRATEGY.

GOOD AND BAD, RIGHT AND WRONG OR THE “JUSTICE” MAINLY DECIDED BY THE GAME’S “PAYOFF”. IN ONE SENTENCE THE THEORY IS ALL ABOUT; “SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST”.

19 PRISONERS DILEMMA: WHITE, BLUE AND THE RED PILL.

          (a) In this newly emerging mating game scenario, all players lived in a kind of prison arrangement under the Elite Ruling Class Prison Authorities, who had their unique Prisoners Identification System to manage and control the Prison inmates. There were three main categories of identification.  1. White Pill  2. Blue Pill 3. Red Pill.   The ruling prison administration received the White pill, which provided them with all social immunities, affluence, luxuries in abundance, to enjoy into perpetuity.  The rest of the prisoners given two choices either to accept the blue pill of Gynocentric doctrine  or chose the Red Pill that opposed the Gynocentric doctrine; perhaps like seen in the “Matrix” movie. 

          The majority prisoners chose the blue pill by agreeing to follows the Gynocentric doctrine. It gave them good social security with its many material benefits and let them live in relative freedom. However, in exchange they had to sacrifice their wisdom of seeing their world reality in all its colours except in Blue and Red. 

          (b) However, a minority of the prisoners who declined to follow the Gynocentric doctrine chose the Red Pill option. They called themselves as “Men’s Right” or “Manosphere” as they don’t want to sacrifice their WISDOM of seeing the realities of their present Gynocentric world in which the authorities lived in affluence and abundance and exercised tight control over the entire population. In exchange for this Red Pill “wisdom” they had to agree to sacrifice most of the Blue Pill world’s social security and benefits and agree to remain inside a stronger prison confinement.           

          The women in the Gynocentric Blue Pill world have been considered more trustworthy by the prison authorities and were appointed as Red Pill prison guards to control the Red Pill male prisoners. Most of these women developed a taste to torment the men whenever they get the opportunity.  The Red pill male prisoners, who were physically stronger than their women prison guards, strictly forbidden to disobey and overpower the female guards to escape from the prison. Any male prisoners who broke this prison rules been caught and severely punished by the prison authority assisted by their modern prisoner’s identification facilities. The escapees who have been caught were put in the most dreadful maximum security solitary confinement and tortured.        

          (c) However the Red Pill prisoners who still carried their male privilege of physical strength and wisdom were able to easily overpower the women prison guards and escape. Therefore, a third sub-game option was given to the prisoners, deliberately designed to deter any such jail break attempt. Many times the women prison guard enticed the male prisoners into the trap of getting over-powered thereby to escape. However the prison Authorities identification system could easily detect and caught the escaped prisoners almost all times and sent them back to face the most horrible punishment, making them the “Scapegoat’s”. The  punishment so cruel, to make it as an example to all the rest of the prisoners to teach them a lesson and convince them that it is impossible to escape from the security system undetected.  Therefore, it is not worth to try to escape since the “cost” (lose) will be multiple times bigger than any of its payoff’s. It made everyone to believe that there is no safe and successful “invading” strategy to escape from this gynocentric prison except to demand the authorities to bring in some important prison reforms, in the form of GENDER NEUTRAL LAWS.

20 PRISONERS ESCAPE; THE “INVADER” GAME STRATEGY

          In their quest to find a safe and successful strategy for the Red Pill prisoners escape, one of them realized that the main reason that prevented the prisoners from finding a safe and successful prison escape, remains in their own Neo-patriarchal sub-conscious indoctrination saying; “Protect women and their ASSETS including children”, which they unknowingly carried with them.  Getting rid of these moral values will enable the men to see that they all are living inside an Evolutionary Game Program. It is possible to invade its prisoner’s identification surveillance system by inserting a new code in it. This new Invader strategy will turn their Red pill identity into the White pill so will give them all the White Pill immunities to enjoy. This Novel Way of the Invader strategy can Break-up the entire gynocentric ESS power dynamics. The women prison guards who used to seeing the Red pill prisoners will become completely blind to see the escaping red pill prisoner in their new white pill identification due to the blue pill program instilled into the guards. The entire responsibility of the prisoners escape will squarely fall on the Woman guard. She had to pay its heavy cost and immediately lose her job with heavy penalty.

21 FINALE: NOVEL WAY STORY EXAMPLE: A “INVADER” GAME STRATEGY

          In the following paper, I will try to show the Red Pill “Invader” strategy example of the Game Theory written in a fantasy fictional story form, titled as; “Novel Way” told by a Protogonist-1(P1) to Protogonist-2(P2). It is only for the entertainment purpose, the “prison escape” may not be as safe and successful as it seems in the story. Every situation is different; the DEVIL IS IN ITS DETAILS”.  Readers are advised not to try it in their reality.

                                                                       Subject to Revision.

©Valerian Texeira - @vallb.

Anyone is free to use this article by referring to its original Copyright author. 

PATRIARCHAL INDOCTRINATINATION” IN MALE DOMINATED HUMAN SOCIETY.”

            When I say  “Patriarchal Indoctrination”, feminist may jump in to say; ‘we have been telling  about  Patriarchal male dominated society long before. When asked; they probably will tell you that “there is no equality (of outcome???) between men and women, the wage-gap, most of the top job posts occupied by the men, crimes against women increase daily, rape culture and their usual rhetoric’s. In response the men’s right will come up with their counter argument  saying; ‘most suicides committed by men, most who are in prisons are men, homeless people mostly are men, proliferation  of male gender biased laws, false domestic violence sexual assault, rape allegations by women, victimization of men by the society increasing and their own rhetoric’s. You can watch Manosphere advocates publications and debates in YouTube on this subject matter.

          What most of these people don’t see is; “THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM” or the  simple fact that  the women simply cannot match or generally lack the TESTOSTRONE driven raw masculine male power,  more physical strength better intelligence in men as a whole. It made the men to build the world, its factories, machineries, technologies, buildings roads, dams, almost all the construction work and more . They are the natural protectors and providers of women, children and family. Men are most importantly are the makers of war machine, soldiers, armies to fight and defend their country which also include all the internal security forces, the law enforcement police, all of them overwhelmingly consist of men from top to bottom. Most importantly, the Mass Media publications Printing houses owned, headed and run by majority men.  Above all, the law makers mostly are men and the women who become the legislators even the heads are there, only to follow the laws, which include the male gender biased legislations which are made and endorsed by the men to protect specially their women's interests in this entire Patriarchal Dominated system. 

          Owning to these facts, one cannot deny that human society is Male Dominated but I call it “IN DEEP STATE OF PATRIACHAL INDOCTRINATION, for a reason. It ranges from the old most traditional conservative at the one hand and the highly progressive, liberal and radical Left feminist at the other end but the majority remain on the middle as  moderates. THEIR COMMON CORE VALUE ARE TO PROVIDE AND PROTECT THE WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN OWNING THEM AND PUTTING THEM ON A PEDESTAL. 

          In the evolution of human species, men by their very intrinsic nature,  became the dominant protectors and providers of women and their children while women by nature became submissive child bearers, nurturing  caretakers of the family. The upper-class, strong, smart and powerful men  poached most of the beautiful, healthy attractive women leading to hypergamy.  The very first Patriarchal “Indoctrination” in human society occurred when the upper class men made their women to cover their genitals to prevent the lower class men’s gaze upon it and to treat their women as their private property. Latter it spread from top to bottom of the social strata. The upper class Alpha men, their men and children ruled the lower class men, mostly slaves or lower cast who had no such rights in society and their women and their children even lesser.

          This social arrangement continued for hundreds of thousand years until the emergence of the Bourgeoisie  liberal  democratic  Capitalist society with its Principle concept of ‘EQUALITY’ among the men and the women, later. The ordinary men and later women were given  rights to vote “Universal Suffrage” to  participate in its political system. The old feudalistic patriarchal indoctrinated values replaced by the new progressive Patriarchal Capitalist Women’s  Right, Democratic liberal rules. The progress in the field of science and technology gave women full control over their reproductive nature and the feminist movement thrived. The digital Main Stream Media identified with the emergent feminist gender equality sexual liberation agenda for its own capitalist business (vested) interest. Unfortunately, the conservative Patriarchal traditionalist Manosphere Advocates even today fail to see or understand that the technological progress stacked against them in favour of Feminism.

          However, there is absolutely no chance that the women will ever attain equality with the testosterone driven male physical strength and the Patriarchal power to match. Nevertheless, despite all their strength men have the inherent weakness for women competing for their sexual favours and consent? It strikes a natural balance of power to equality between men and women known as Nash Equilibrium in Game theory . EVEN THOUGH MEN BUILT THE WORLD, IT IS THE WOMEN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO ALL THOSE MEN WHO BUILD THE WORLD.

          The battle of sexes in the AI driven technological world today to attain dominance and to gain maximum payoffs, perhaps can be better explained under the “Game theory” under the subtitle of “Evolutionary Mating Game Theory. Made available in my blog post: https://anticorruptionfight.blogspot.com

          Fuelled by the technological progress of AI revolution the gynocentric uprising will continue towards attaining the full technological driven sexual liberation of men and women empowered with virtual world sex dolls where pornification will rule as  the way of life. Nevertheless, a few decades from now the gender battles that we see today will come to an end. The human society in the future will mostly transform into the trans-human/post-human society, where the SINGULARITY will rule.

          I was able to recognise it, due to my waking up and coming out  of the dogma of my  deep state of Patriarchal indoctrination and see it HIDING IN THE PLAIN SIGHT. “Men’s Voice of Wisdom” ©vallb

PATRIARCHY VS. FEMINISM: Evolutionary Mating "Game Theory"

        The conflict between men and women in the society today, can be best explained "Scientifically" by the Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT), a subset of Game Theory. The following is a Brief Version of this Evolutionary Mating Game Theory (EMGT).

          The continued part given in the  "Revised",  recent publication in this blog Post.

CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, MARXISM VS. ZERO WORK THEORY (Summary)

 The Progress in the exponential  AI technology today, will going to bring a revolutionary social change, unprecedented in human history. This long-awaited radical social transformation, which Karl Marx (1818-1881) and his socialist/communist followers have predicted may be finally  on the horizon.  However, unfortunately for them, it will not happen in the way they envisioned.

Marx forecasted that the advancement of productive forces, particularly through industrialization, would lead to a massive increase in the working class population. However, the reality that we see today seems to be heading in the opposite direction.  Instead the working class increasing in numbers, which Marx believed would serve as the vanguard of  his  socialist revolution, gradually shrinking and may eventually completely  disappear soon in the future.

 The  rapid deployment of exponential AI technology at present employed across every social production sector, rendering the human labour  redundant or obsolete in a decades or two, perhaps sooner. This transformation will have a profound impact on society, requiring us to start contemplating how we will adapt to this new reality.

 In my youth  I was a Marxist labour activist and still remain great admirer of Karl Marx.  However when I studied more about the Marxian working class “labour” theory, I began to diverge from its socialist ideology. This led to the publication of my book titled; titled; "AN ALTERNATIVE TO MARXIAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM; REDUCTION IN WORKING HOUR THEORY", in the year 1981. The basic premise of the theory is; “Human labour RELATION (compulsion) in order to obtain their means of subsistence is the root-cause of labour exploitation. This exploitation in turn  gives rise to inequality, injustice, corruption and most of the social ills. Therefore, along with the progress of the productive forces (science and technology) the working hours needs to be  gradually reduced to  zero to form a new Zero Work egalitarian society" I now refer it as "Zero Work Society(ZWT) or Zero Work Theory".

 This theory stands in contrast to the Marxist theory of class exploitation and the class struggle which asserts that ruling classes have historically exploited the labouring class, from slavery to feudalism which continues today under the capitalism. Marxism claims that the private ownership of the means of production is the root cause of labour exploitation. Therefore, it advocates for the working class should unite to rise against the capitalist class and finally overthrow the capitalist system through a forceful (violent) revolution. The goal is to abolish private ownership of the means of production and establish a socialist or communist state system under the dictatorship of the proletariat, where labour exploitation on the working class would cease to exist.

 The fundamental difference between ZWT and Marxian socialism lies in their distinct understandings  of labour exploitation. According to Marxian socialist theory, the labour exploitation on workers in essence is that, the capitalist exploits workers “labour power” for the extraction of “Surplus Value” (profit) that in general supposed to be 100%,  identified as the rate (percentage) of labour exploitation  on the workers, which Marx calls as the “relative labour exploitation. However, being a worker,  I  realized that this Marxian  concept of relative labour exploitation raises so many fundamental questions to which it has no answers.

 For instance, consider two workers—one working 10 hours a day and the other working 8 hours a day.  If we measure the rate of relative labour exploitation (surplus labour) on these workers as 100%, that leads to the conclusion that they are equally exploited. However, this sweeping notion of Marxian relative labour exploitation, overlooks or fails to see some of the most  important aspects involved in the  labour exploitation such as the length of working hours also the compensation in return and other relevant factors of labour exploitation that the workers experience in their daily life.

 Let us take another scenario where one worker faces 100%  relative labour exploitation (surplus value) but is underpaid, while the second worker is highly paid but subjected to as much as 200 to 300% in terms of relative labour exploitation, resulting in his employer earning 2 to 3 times  the surplus value or the profit, to put it simply.  In these two individual cases the kind of labour exploitation that they experience is categorically different which the Marxian labour theory  fails to recognize . What about a self-employed who works 12 hours a day to get meagre income,  how does the Marxian relative labour exploitation theory apply in his case. What about the unemployed  who suffer immensely without any wage income, Does he  undergo any particular kind of labour exploitation, what kind, if any? Marxian relative labour exploitation theory totally fails to answer any of these questions comprehensively. This the situation in ground that millions of workers like me undergo daily in their life. This lack in the understanding of labour exploitation on the workers leads to the dismal failure of the Marxian economic state systems, which we witnessing in today socialist systems of the communist states.

 In contrast to the Marxian labour exploitation theory, the ZWT contends that there are mainly 4 kinds of labour exploitations on the labouring classes throughout the human history;

1. Subsistence Sustenance exploitation (measures of low income or poverty).

2. “Relative” labour exploitation (capitalist marginal profit, Marxian concept)

3. “Productive” labour exploitation (capitalist high profit margins, Marxian terminology)

4. Absolute labour exploitation (measured by the length of working hours).

According to the ZWT; Marxian socialist or communist systems similar to the capitalist system could never do away any of these labour exploitations on the workers as long as the human labour remains necessary for social production. Only the total elimination of the human wage labour in the social production (which is made possible by the AI technological progress today) can end the labour exploitation and all the inequalities injustice and the evils which results from it. ZWT believes that the Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the first step in achieving the goals of Zero Work Society.

 Another major difference between the Marxian Socialism and the ZWT lies in their historical perspective known as “historical materialism”. Marxism views  human history as the history of class struggle between the labour exploiting class and the labour exploited class, owning  to their opposite class interest. These  conflicting class interest eventually boils down into complete overthrow of the existing social system and establishing a new social order. It happened in the slave system, feudal system all of which gave way to the capitalist system. Marxism strongly believes that the continued class struggle between the working class and the Capitalist class eventually will end up in violent overthrow of capitalist system and establishing a more equitable human society sooner or later, where the labour exploitation on workers will be eliminated.

 In contrast to Marxian ‘historical materialism’ the  Zero Work Theory categorises human history according to the progress of science and technology in different stages of human  history. The first stage commenced  with the early humans started using rudimentary tools as a substitute to their body parts  specially their limbs to help them in their day to day labour to fulfil their basic need for survival. The primitive tools slowly  progressed into  more sophisticated tools as the replacement or assistance in their day to day labour work. The invention of wheels is most important among them. This primary stage of technological development, increasing the productivity of labor many folds,  continued for  hundreds and thousands of years become far more advanced throughout the middle ages.

 The second stage emerged at around the 18th century with the advent of steam engines that further evolved into internal combustion engines run by the fossil fuels, progressed into electric motors merging with the machine tools popularly known as the Industrial Revolution. It significantly reduced the reliance on the human and animal hard physical labour with unimaginable magnitude of strength and power, unparalleled in human history. These machine tool able to do heavy lifting hard labour tirelessly equal to thousands of horsepower’s, nevertheless, it always needed the humans intelligent brain or the cognitive power to guide them to perform  the given task.

 The third and final stage or human labour replacement is the social production began with the advent of Semiconductors or the microchip digital revolution. The Exponential growth of the microprocessors started the era known as the Artificial Intelligence (AI).  As we entered the 21st century the AI robotics  automation started rapidly replacing humans (biological) intelligence with its human brain like neurological machine deep learning, Generative, Transformer, Liquid neural algorithms. AI technology is getting far more superior to the humans biological brain in the performance of all human work.

 While Karl Marx was undoubtedly a visionary thinker of his time, the limitations of the technological advancement during the era he lived in, specifically when he wrote the Communist Manifesto, in 1848, prevented him from foreseeing the accelerating industrial progress opening up a new exponential technological paradigm of cybernetic revolution. The industrial revolution of his time did not allow him to anticipate that the technological progress in the coming future would render the labour power of his cherished working class redundant within a couple of centuries.

 The ZWT owns its existence to the unique historical times that it (I) was living in. The time was  the latter part of 20^th century when the world was witnessing  unprecedented progress in the field of science and technology on the one hand and the colossal failures in the communist states on the other hand while the capitalist states going still strong. The news of robots in the workplace and promise of abundance of energy in the form nuclear fusion (cold fusion!!!)  everywhere in the science and technological media that I was reading. It gave me the new historical perspective with glimpse of the coming future that the advancement of technological front combined with the energy would render the human labour eventually redundant or obsolete in the social production. However I did not expect to see it in my life time.

 What intrigues me even today; despite witnessing the exponential AI technological progress that evidently removes the need of human wage labour in the social production, both the capitalist and communist ideologues  still arguing human wage labour is important as it was before in social production to maintain the social health and wellbeing of the masses. While the ZWT sees the wage labour  is drudgery a form of human slavery which needs to be eliminated with the introduction of Universal Basic Income (UBI)as soon as possible with the help of AI Technology.

 In conclusion, while Karl Marx's ideas were ground-breaking for his time and I still believe that the Marxian theoretical framework of understanding capitalism is still relevant today. However the limitations of the historical technological developmental stage in which he was living prevented him from envisioning the full scope of technological progress of the future that we are witnessing today. In the contemporary world, the Zero Work Society propelled by the Universal Basic Income (UBI) that will liberated the masses from their daily wage slavery to become free, and establish a democratic, equitable, egalitarian society IN WHICH HUMAN CREATIVITY AND COMPASSION IS NOT CONSTRAINED BY ITS ECONOMIC INCENTIVES as a promising alternative to the human labour compelled, capitalist, socialist or communist states.

(Subject to further revision)

Valerian Texeira. India, Karnataka, Mangalore. 

Zero Work Theory Summary

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.

Zero Work Theory-I

Zero Work Theory

Part-I

Introduction

The basic idea of Zero Work Theory (ZWT) originally embarked under a long title: “An ALTERNATIVE to Marxian Scientific Socialism – The Theory Reduction in Working Hours - A Demand 6 Hour Working Day”. The Book published in the year 1981. I consider it as the early segment of ZWT. 

The main objective of the theory was to present an “Alternative to Marxian Socialism or Communism”. It proclaims that the world working class movement need a new working class theory because Marxism as a whole utterly failed to understand them, since it completely ignores THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF LABOR EXPLOITATION on the working population as a whole, which wreak havoc in their everyday life, Marxism could not foresee the rapid development of science and technologies of the future especially the exponential growth in the field of Artificial Intelligent (AI) ROBOT, automation going to replace most human labor. Therefore, Marxism could not anticipate the future development of its own favourite  productive forces, labour productivity could make his beloved working class, human labor completely USELESS, redundant or obsolete in the social production of goods and services  within a couple of centuries.

                             

Having the opportunity to access this historical perspective of the future in the 1980’s, I envisioned that the historical mission of the  laboring class" is to gradually reduce the working hours in the day step by step, when it finally reduced to zero, there will be no more need of human wage-labor in the social production therefore, the society will need to establish a new kind of income distribution economic system. That is why my theory at this point today professes that every citizen of the world must receive a Guaranteed, Adequate Universal Basic Income  in order to lead a healthy, comfortable, secure life. Thereby, the historic compulsion on the humankind to labor in order to  meet their basic needs, in the form of wages, salary will be completely eliminated. My revised name for this theory is "Zero Work Theory" (ZWT).

Zero Work Theory Advocate Abolition of Wage (paid) Labor

The ZWT declares that, “The basic relationship of workers to their LABOR” comes from the COMPULSION" in order to obtain their “means of subsistence”, in the form of food, shelter, clothing, health, security, education and basic comforts. Humans MUST work; it is not a choice but a necessity. The need to work originally imposes by nature on humans, which resulted in allowing a strong minority of the population to exploit (oppress, subjugate etc.) the weaker majority to work for them for various reasons, mainly the private property. It enables the minority to obtain a portion of the products or “value” of the majority’s labor to accumulate wealth and become rich. This is the root-cause of inequality, poverty, injustice, crimes and corruption in the present society. Therefore the ZWT claims; as the technology progress, labor productivity rises and the NEED for labor decreases, the society as a whole should engage in a step-by-step reduction in work hours to continually re-balance the labor value distribution to prevent the widening the income gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots”.  It should finally end into the Zero Working Day, providing the REAL FREEDOM, LIBERATING the majority of the population, if not the entire human race from its historical compulsion, adversity; the drudgery of the Wage- Labor servitude. It is the complete elimination of the last remnant of historical human labor bondage a form of human SLAVERY, thereby, to establish a truly Democratic, humanitarian and equitable socio-economic political system.

Labor is a COMPULSION: Workers Not Really Free to Make A choice of Not To Work

It is true that the workers are made free to do labor but they are not “really” free, NOT TO DO IT. Otherwise, they will be deprived of their basic income. Without the basic income one can’t afford their needs, wants, decent food, clothing, shelter, health, education and other basic comforts in life. They will be forced to undergo immense suffering, starvation, homelessness, left to die or reduced to BEGGING. One may call it as a “free choice” but I consider it as the most degrading kind of labor (job, profession?) next to prostitution (no offence intended), which existed since the dawn of human species. Therefore, like the human labor, if the prostitution and begging forced genuinely by their economic conditions, it can be completely eliminated with an Adequate UNCONDITIONAL Basic Income Guaranty, popularly known as the Universal Basic Income (UBI) which I see as the early manifestation of the ZWT.

Fundamental difference between the ZWT "Wage-Labor Exploitation" and Marxian “Working Class Exploitation”

According to the ZWT, throughout the human history, till the present day, humankind has undergone four basic kinds of labor exploitation. 1. Subsistence Sustenance Exploitation  2. Relative Labor Exploitation 3. Productive Labor Exploitation  4. Absolute Labor Exploitation (the book explains, each of it in details). These exploitations are, primarily responsible for most of the social inequality, injustice, poverty, repression corruption which exists both in the capitalist and the socialist systems in the world today. The concept of "Labor Exploitation" in Zero Work Theory is fundamentally different from Marxian Socialist concept of ruling (capitalist) class exploitation of working class, founded on the “Private Means of Production”.

Marxism claims that LABOR-EXPLOITATION exists mainly due to the social "class" system, which results in the constant "class struggle" between the minority ruling "capitalist class", owning the means of production and the majority working class which doesn’t. It classifies the  human history so far, into three main social systems: 1.Slavery, 2.Feudalism, 3.Capitalism; in all these three systems the “property owning” minority rich class primarily exists/survives/dwells on the labor exploitation of the poor majority class. Therefore, Marxism claims that the private ownership of wealth or property is the fundamental reason of the exploitation on the working class, which is responsible for all kinds of social evils like injustice, inequality, poverty, repression, corruption, crimes, prevailing in the human society. Therefore, it proclaims that there is a 4th system namely the Socialist or Communist system which will completely eliminate the labor exploitation mainly by the ABOLITION of the private ownership of the means of production, commonly known as the Private Property.

Marxist fundamentally claim that the human society will have social, economic and political equality if it abolishes the “private ownership of means of production”, which in turn will abolish labor exploitation of the working class, thereby ushering in a "classless" communist society. But today, all of these theories have been proven completely wrong. Another Marxian basic concept, which claims that only human labor can creates value and wealth in society also turning to be absolutely wrong, most importantly because the rapid progress in the Artificial intelligence (AI) robotics and automation making the human labor no more as valuable or redundant.  One of Marx's most famous quotes is, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." This envisages that under the communism people need to labor according to your capacity, and then society provides everyone with everything they will need. It is like the science fiction movies we see today, where all of the humans in the future still engaged in labor, despite the high tech world they live in.

ZWT agrees with the Marxist theory to the extent of saying that the capitalist basically exploit the labor of workers in the form of Relative Labor Exploitation.  Nevertheless, it thoroughly denounces Marxism for failing to recognize the rest of the labor exploitation, which makes it unable to address the issue of on-going other real labor exploitations (mentioned above) that also includes self-employed underemployed and unemployed. Moreover, ZWT does not accept that the abolition of “private property" will end any of the Labor Exploitation in the society. Irrespective of whoever runs/manages the means of production (factories, industries, companies, business, corporation etc.) as long as the compulsion of labor exist for workers to earn their livelihood, the entire chain of labor exploitation will continue. Only the overall reduction in working hours will reduce labor exploitation and will completely end it when it finally reaches the Zero Work with the support of an adequate Universal Basic Income.

Historical Materialism: ZWT view on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ROBOTS

Robots are basically the DESCENDANTS of the tools used by primitive humans as an extension of their body parts to perform functions, which increase the productivity of their labor. Humans now have achieved such a high degree of technological sophistication that the AI robots can (or soon will) SUBSTITUTE nearly any physical function of the human body, including the intelligent function of the BRAIN

As per the ZWT, in the early human historical developmental stages, the primitive man made tools stones, sticks vines, bones etc., which substituted many functions of human body, was an extension of their hands, legs, body, to improve their laboring capacity. The second stage was centred around the industrial revolution of the 18th century. Human/animal MUSCLE POWER was replaced by steam engines and later by the gigantic electric motor power. These machine tools, seen in the power looms in those early days, tremendously increased labor productivity, which  started the era of mass production thereby mass consumption but  always needed the human brain cognitive ability in the loop to make them to perform the work.  

By the second half of the 20th century, ushered the third and final stage of  human labor replacement. The beginning of Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Integrated-circuits, silicon microchip, Cybernetic Revolution. The calculators, software programmed computers and the sophisticated AI machine/deep learning robot automation. It can replace most of the functions of human brain cognitive power called “intelligence”. These sophisticated humanoid robots in the future can do most of the jobs that humans perform, making most of the human wage-labor completely redundant.

Now in the 21^st century today, the new autonomous AI machines, incorporated with DEEP/MACHINE-LEARNING (self-programming software, algorithms of various types), in combination with web-based cloud sharing, can already do things that are beyond any human capacity and with every generation of software will become faster and better, superior to human intelligence in many significant ways. The emerging QUANTUM computers can bring in new paradigm shift in the field, in the very near future; say in 10 to 20 years, it will completely replace the needs of the intelligent human labor brain functions in the service sector like it happened previously in the manufacturing agricultural and the manufacturing sector. Even the professional jobs like doctors, lawyers even judges can be efficiently replaced by the AI robots. In one word, the AI robots will completely remove the necessity of human labor in the future production of goods and services. Therefore, a gradual reduction or even a complete end to working hours (zero work) with the empowering UBI entitlement will become a necessity for human society. This is the historical perspective of the Zero Work Theory, in contrast to Marxist Historical Materialism, which I described earlier.

The Readers Response to My Book when it Published in 1981.

Except for one or two positive book reviews in the popular Kannada News Papers in 1981 (which still remain popular today), there was not much response. I think my book failed to get the "response" it needed, to become a book that made political changes, because of my situation of that time.

Reasons for The failure of Reduction in Working Hour  (RWH) Theory to get the Response It Needed

Imagine some unknown young guy with no academic background or any credentials, proposing this theory of step by step reduction in the working hours ending in Zero Work in 1981; as an alternative to Marxian Socialism. No one will believe it would be possible; which continues even today for many people. No sensible publisher at that time would even look at it. It had to be self-published by my small workers group. We tried to distribute it to well-known academics, but outside our group no one was interested. With hindsight, I see that I was the wrong person to deliver this message, I was underprivileged and disadvantaged, (a description that still applies). I wanted to achieve an impossible task, exposing a fundamental flaw in Marxism, a philosophy followed by hundreds of millions of people and for a century. No matter what I did, I would never convince the world socialist/communist leadership (who, in India, are leaders of most organized workers) to abandon their socialist revolution ideology for my reduction in working hours demand. If no one would listen to me, I had to wait for history to prove which theory was right.

Since 1980’s, the working hours of the working class not reduced significantly as it should be as per the ZWT, as a consequence, the overall “value of the labor power” has decreased. The technological progress has wiped out the large portion of industrial manufacturing jobs, shifting the large portion of employment into the service sector jobs. This has declined  the strength of the working class nearly to a collapsing point. On the other hand, the  strength of Capitalist or “ruling” class had grown many folds. Paradoxically, Instead of the working class demanding a reduction in working hours, the ruling class has begun to offer a reduction in working hours. The corporate giant of the “Silicon-Valley”, have even begun to promote the idea of UBI, An Unconditional Guaranteed Income will allow large number of laboring individuals to quit or withdraw from wage labor, resulting in overall Reduction In Working Hours in the society. I see this as an  early manifestation of   the Zero Work Theory (ZWT) which is the contemporary version of my revised Reduction in Working Hour Theory (RWHT). Today I am more confident that history will prove that RWHT is right than ever before. I warned about the rising threat of progressing technology, driving unemployment and proposed a scientific solution, the gradual Work Reduction  towards Zero Working Hours in 1981.  However, pundits in the field even today have not yet recognized or very reluctant to accept this important historical message of ZWT.

In 1980 the "working class" meant industrial jobs, manufacturing, and factory jobs. These jobs have dwindled away around the world rapidly since, even in late developing countries like India. As working class jobs in the manufacturing shrink down. Office and professional jobs are seriously threatened by the AI automation, the service sector workers in constant fear of following the same dwindling away job loss process. Against the wishes of the Marx and all his predecessors, almost all of the Communist/Socialist countries in principle are gone. All capitalists nations did not become socialist, and no socialist country evolved into a Utopian paradise. Socialist went back to become capitalist but no socialist theory said, "we will become socialist, then go back to capitalism, then become socialist again, and THEN become a Utopia". Today we can safely say that history has spoken, and we can forget about traditional idea of Socialism.

ZWT written in 1981 in India. What is the relevance of it to the rest of the world today?

ZWT is more relevant to the world today than ever before! It applies primarily to industrially developed nations, rather than developing countries like India, but as any nation develops the theory has a greater impact. My writing definitely applies to the United States, the world's leading industrial superpower as the ZWT model. The majority of economists say that China will soon be the world's #1 economy. China and a few smaller nations were very late to develop (much of Africa has still to develop) and their Industrial base is still growing. ZWT predicts that as China develops, they will follow the same pattern of massive industrial unemployment, followed a few years later by growth and then decline in white-collar work. China will seek relief through some form of UBI, as will India. The World Business as well political leader, future experts talking about the UBI. In the US emerging new political aspirations have started sponsoring the idea of  some kind of "basic income"  or UBI.

I don't expect the academics to read my theory or mention me or the theory by name but I do see them expressing their concerns of the progressing technological impending impact and the solutions, that I spoke back in 1981. Nations need to realize that "Technological Unemployment", created by the AI deep-learning robots, will make human labor redundant prompting Zero Work Society. Therefore, the need of the human wage-labor in the society can be completely done away with requiring the implementation of an adequate Universal Basic Income (UBI).

Does this theory apply just to the rich, or equally to the poor countries? How would it be applied in India vs. America?

Even though India is still a developing country it will quickly follow the world, particularly the US. The IT and Knowledge Industry in India will be impacted the first. I am not sure to what extent we will see the entry of self-driving vehicles on Indian roads or Wal-Mart robots in our supermarkets in the next 5 to 10 years. However, the most important thing to know is that developing countries like India, seeking a place in today's Globalized world, will be HELPLESS to do anything other than following the technological trends in industrialized nations.

If robots take over all work, what happens to today's jobs in the ZWT?

Past industrial revolutions created far more jobs than they replaced. The intelligent robot revolution will be different, wiping out all jobs performed by humans today. This is the first time that there is a potential for NO net job creation. These robots are capable performing not just existing jobs, but new jobs that are created by technology changes. Robots are always more efficient and cost less than human alternatives. Every year, the best robot gets better. The best human, the absolute best in the world at doing a job, doesn't get better but does want to be paid more. Don't we all expect to get a raise, especially as we become experienced and perform better? Robots get cheaper as they improve. The robot revolution will create new jobs, such as robot service technician. But new jobs can be taken over by robots, just like old jobs were.

When most human labor becomes redundant, and there are far more people than work, the majority of people will have no employment. However, humans will still fill some jobs, those that robots are not yet ready or not allowed to do. This could be less than 50% of the jobs today. If there are only 30 jobs for 100 workers, no amount of effort or perseverance on the part of workers will result in more than 30% employment. The 70% unemployed can start their own business but a few may have the skills to run a restaurant, make jewellery, write a book (that sells), or even invent something. In America today, 90% of new businesses fail in a good economy. Self-employment and small businesses might add 5% to 10% jobs at best. For everyone else, the vast majority, we need an adequate Universal Basic Income (UBI).

However, some people will demand a job. They may have critical skills, such as doctors and scientists, that strongly benefit society should be kept employed. Other individuals will outright reject a government stipend. To address these social issues, we need to reduce the number of hours in a typical working week. The reduction in the work week to 30 or fewer hours is probably a good starting place. For every nation, their formula for an UBI and for a reduced work week will vary and may change over time. It is for the people of every nation to DEMOCRATICALLY decide these details. Finally the ZWT envisages that all human work in the productions of social goods and services needs to become completely voluntary no more wages or economic incentive will be paid for human work .

What needs to happen to implement the ZWT and when? Who needs to take action?

My present position is that rapid AI robot automation will cause massive job losses and massive ‘Technological Unemployment’ problems. Public opinion, mass demonstrations, social media and finally the electorate will compel Governments to implement "Universal Basic Income" (UBI) or something of that sort, more so in the industrially developed countries. It fundamentally differs from classical Capitalist poverty alleviation welfare or unemployment benefit programs. UBI will be entirely new kind of Income distribution socio-economic system, it will provide an "escape valve" for people who cannot find a job and do not want to work anymore. My interpretation of the UBI today is that it is an early manifestation of ZWT, a visible sign of economy adjusting to lessening of the overall Working Hours in the human society.

UBI Is Most Essential Part of the Zero Work Theory

A Universal Basic Income or whatever may be the name will provide an alternative to a socially destructive level of technological unemployment. Realistically, when most jobs go away, they won't go away evenly. Robots will quickly replace clerks and truck drivers, but heart surgeons will take longer. America already has tens of millions of adults who do not work, for one reason or another. If everyone was not financially required to work, parents would spend more time raising their children or taking care of their elderly parents. That's what adults want to do, that what their children want, and it's what THEIR parents want. It is also what governments say are good family values and they want.

The Cost of  UBI

Many say the cost of UBI will be a tremendous burden on the Government that may not able to sustain in the present budget conditions. Others disagree. There are many ways that the Government can overcome the burden. It can be difficult but what is the alternative? Governments are just beginning to realize the extent of the disruption that will be caused by robots. Will America outlaw technology? Can that be done if China and other countries continue to use technology to dominate the global economy? We have seen in the global financial collapse when unemployment reaches  to 8-10%. Just imagine how difficult it will be for governments to deal with robotic unemployment of 50% or more? Will they offer training programs for jobs that do not exist, or are about to be replaced by robots? What is the alternative to a UBI that offers any dignity to the millions who cannot ever re-enter the job market? For a dislocation in the job market this big, it takes a solution that is equally big. To survive the AI Deep-Learning robot revolution we need the UBI to reduce the total number of workers in the labor force, and then we need to share the remaining work through a reduced-hour work week.

The historic progress of science and technology has created smart machines... robots and artificial intelligence. Deep learning is a technology with the capability to understand and duplicate human labor functions, and then instruct robots how to independently produce goods and services in abundance. Little if any human wage-labor will be needed. In the past, asking to be paid without working for the money was considered lazy, or greedy, or dysfunctional. In the age of the robot, instead of compelling everyone to have a job, people who are not willing or capable of performing jobs should be allowed to withdraw from the job market through the UBI and reduce the unemployment level. They can be free to do whatever they like. Millennial might like it the most!

ZWT Proposal to Finance the UBI

Many proponents of Universal Basic Income suggest that the UBI can get enough funds by replacing or cancelling the existing Govt. Entitlement, Welfare Programs. However, the cancellation of these programs will mostly affect the poor, weak and the underprivileged. It will face strong resistance, protest from many quarters of society including the interest lobby groups like pensioners, women, etc., making it a highly sensitive issue in the mainstream media, some of it can be very genuine.  Providing a meagre amount in the name of UBI with the cancellation of the popular Govt. welfare programs would be unethical and unacceptable. Therefore, let explore some new avenues, alternatives to finance an Adequate UBI.

Zero Work Theory which considers UBI as the part and partial of its overall program has a very important proposal to fund the UBI. There should be a Universal or Uniform Income Tax (UIT) to fund the UBI.  Under which the Government should implement a flat rate (Uniform) Income Tax on every income earning that the people make or receive. More of it explained in my blog: “ZWT Proposal: Uniform Income Tax To Fund UBI” : http://anticorruptionfight.blogspot.in/2017/08/zwt-proposal-uniform-income-tax-to-fund.html

End of Part-I ZWT; see the Part-II Zero Work Theory in the following post:  (http://anticorruptionfight.blogspot.in/2017/04/)

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