About the devolution of the economy and the planned obsolescence
About the devolution of the economy and the planned obsolescence
Those who studied the political economy taught in the USSR remember well that “Socialism is a transitional period from capitalism to communism”; “The task of socialism is to build the material and technical base for communism”. Today this goal has been achieved. The material and technical base for communism has not only been built, but has long since been rebuilt.
If half a century ago people lived in conditions of shortage of essential goods, today the material-technical base of the planet has become so developed that the level of production already exceeds the level of possible consumption. It would seem that people can now relax and live peacefully and happily, devoting most of their time to self-development, creativity, relatives and family. As Syroezhkin from the movie “The Adventures of Electronik” sang: “Robots work hard - a man is happy!
Scientists have calculated that in order to maintain the standard of living at which we now find ourselves, a person only needs to work one or two hours a day - that is, one day a week - provided that things are not made deliberately obsolete. But in order to maintain a high rate of sales and production of goods, their quality and shelf life are now deliberately reduced.
Twenty years ago, technology had already reached the point where cars, computers, telephones, and all household appliances could be made to work for decades without breaking down. Many cars produced in the forties and fifties of the last century (such as cars “Victory”) drove for 50-60 years. A quarter of a century ago, the company “Volkswagen” released cars with a guaranteed engine mileage of one million kilometers, but quickly removed them from production, because having bought them, people did not need to buy a new car for a long time. Therefore, the resource of engines produced today cars around the world artificially reduced to 200 000 thousand kilometers. The level of technology and science has long allowed to make cars so that they work without breakdowns for 100 years or more! But they are deliberately made today so that after 6 years they start to break down and after 15 years they are on the dump. The same situation is in all spheres of goods produced today.
I recently gave a lecture in Germany. Germans who had moved there from the USSR told me that some of them still have washing machines and refrigerators that they brought with them in 1991, whereas the refrigerators that are sold now work for exactly five years and break down as soon as the warranty runs out. The organizer of my seminars told me that his friend works in a company that makes parts for Siemens and Bosh, and they order parts that will last exactly five years - although they can make these parts to last not five but 50 years or more.
A woman who works as a technologist in a very famous stocking and tights company said that a few years ago the director of the company gave them an assignment to start making these products in such a way that externally their quality remains the same, but their shelf life is shorter. Older women know well that tights used to be worn for half a year or more; now they start to tear after a week. The same principle is now being applied to the production of clothing.
Twenty years ago, Timberlend, Reebok and Nike were at least four times more reliable and durable than they are today. One pair of Reebok sneakers I wore for several years very intensively daily all summer and fall. Now they only last for one season. I've worn out and thrown away two pairs of mid-calf boots this winter, although about ten years ago I wore the exact same model for two years. Lighting fixtures can be made to last practically forever, and that's no secret. But I've replaced several light bulbs in the kitchen alone this year. Kettles and household appliances, all electronic equipment are made today so that they fail after two years, and people now continue to work 7-10 hours a day in order to continuously buy new appliances, cars, computers, telephones, clothes and shoes to replace the good things bought earlier, which have prematurely fallen into disrepair, spending all their energy for this purpose.
Artificial increase in sales (i.e. artificial overproduction of goods) is also connected with the creation of “fashion trends”, stimulating people's greed, unhealthy ambitions and “sense of prestige”. People are forced to buy more and more new things to replace the old, already “not prestigious”, “unfashionable”.
There is no need to say what load it creates on Nature. In fact, mankind now can be compared to a huge combine harvester, which goes around the planet and processes the resources of Nature, which it has been accumulating for millions of years, turning them into garbage. The modern economy is a garbage economy, producing garbage.
What causes this to happen?
-Because states are still focused on GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth, old-fashioned - just as in times of commodity scarcity - considering GDP growth as an unambiguous good. In reality, when the level of production of goods reached an evolutionary peak, covering all the necessary needs of people, the criterion of evaluation had to be changed. By maintaining coverage of all human needs, GDP should have begun to decline as technology continued to advance. There should have been a reorientation of the economy to a new evolutionary path of societal development. But since the leaders of the countries have not done it so far, the economy of the planet instead of its evolution has followed the path of devolution: instead of decreasing the GDP while maintaining the satisfaction of all the needs of the population by improving the quality and increasing the duration of the goods produced, freeing women from work and reducing the length of the working week, enterprises began to decrease the quality and duration of the goods produced in order to maintain and increase the GDP.
But this is a dead-end way of societal development, and humanity will not be able to follow it for a long time because the Earth's resources are limited. Not to mention that because of the work of factories and plants, there is less and less ecologically clean land, clean drinking water and clean air every year.
Trash devolutionary economy is an outmoded demonic economy based on pitting the interests of one group of people against the interests of others. Whereas spiritual (evolutionary) economy is based on the concern of each member of society for the welfare of others.
The progress of mankind should lead not to an increase, but to a REDUCTION in the production of low-quality non-food products(!!!) The sales of all non-food products should decrease, not increase!!!! And countries should be evaluated not by the quantity of plastic or iron goods produced, - not by the high level of gross domestic product (GDP), but by the quality of relations between people in them!!!!!
The evaluation of the success of a state by its GDP has been imposed on all states by bankers who want to rule the states and humanity as a whole through the financial and credit system.
That is why in Europe 30% of all produced foodstuffs are destroyed - in order not to allow lowering prices and reducing the profits of a handful of international bankers. This approach benefits only the parasites of the social organism. No one else benefits: neither our Earth, nor our rulers, nor ordinary people.
Spiritual progress is caring for the good of others. And care for the welfare of others is to produce quality durable goods, healthy food. If a businessman intentionally lowers the quality of goods or foodstuffs for the sake of his personal gain, to bring more money to his family, - if he opposes the interests of his family to the well-being and health of others - he will not be able to develop spiritually, because he goes against the interests of G-d and destroys spirituality. It is quite obvious to those who are spiritually developed: caring for the welfare of others improves the quality of our entire life!
Therefore, if we are really reasonable, adult people, and even more so if we claim to be spiritual beings, we should use the growth of technology to increase the quality of manufactured goods (not to decrease it), to reduce the quantity of production - which will reduce the load on the same consumption of energy carriers by tens and hundreds of times. Because now 90% of fuel is spent simply to move people to their place of work and back home; to transport raw materials and various goods and to dispose of them.
That is why the world's leading economists are increasingly raising the issue of shorter working hours and monthly unconditional income for citizens instead of keeping them busy producing and disposing of garbage.
Humanity is ready to embrace an evolutionary, ecological type of economy, where technology will work for the good of the planet by producing quality durable goods that will free up people's time, allowing them to turn this world into a wondrous garden.
+ Ending the depression through planned obsolescence
#capitalism #GDP #efficiency #management #planning #economy #technology #energy #workersrights #humanity #socialism #study for #future
Those who studied the political economy taught in the USSR remember well that “Socialism is a transitional period from capitalism to communism”; “The task of socialism is to build the material and technical base for communism”. Today this goal has been achieved. The material and technical base for communism has not only been built, but has long since been rebuilt.
If half a century ago people lived in conditions of shortage of essential goods, today the material-technical base of the planet has become so developed that the level of production already exceeds the level of possible consumption. It would seem that people can now relax and live peacefully and happily, devoting most of their time to self-development, creativity, relatives and family. As Syroezhkin from the movie “The Adventures of Electronik” sang: “Robots work hard - a man is happy!
Scientists have calculated that in order to maintain the standard of living at which we now find ourselves, a person only needs to work one or two hours a day - that is, one day a week - provided that things are not made deliberately obsolete. But in order to maintain a high rate of sales and production of goods, their quality and shelf life are now deliberately reduced.
Twenty years ago, technology had already reached the point where cars, computers, telephones, and all household appliances could be made to work for decades without breaking down. Many cars produced in the forties and fifties of the last century (such as cars “Victory”) drove for 50-60 years. A quarter of a century ago, the company “Volkswagen” released cars with a guaranteed engine mileage of one million kilometers, but quickly removed them from production, because having bought them, people did not need to buy a new car for a long time. Therefore, the resource of engines produced today cars around the world artificially reduced to 200 000 thousand kilometers. The level of technology and science has long allowed to make cars so that they work without breakdowns for 100 years or more! But they are deliberately made today so that after 6 years they start to break down and after 15 years they are on the dump. The same situation is in all spheres of goods produced today.
I recently gave a lecture in Germany. Germans who had moved there from the USSR told me that some of them still have washing machines and refrigerators that they brought with them in 1991, whereas the refrigerators that are sold now work for exactly five years and break down as soon as the warranty runs out. The organizer of my seminars told me that his friend works in a company that makes parts for Siemens and Bosh, and they order parts that will last exactly five years - although they can make these parts to last not five but 50 years or more.
A woman who works as a technologist in a very famous stocking and tights company said that a few years ago the director of the company gave them an assignment to start making these products in such a way that externally their quality remains the same, but their shelf life is shorter. Older women know well that tights used to be worn for half a year or more; now they start to tear after a week. The same principle is now being applied to the production of clothing.
Twenty years ago, Timberlend, Reebok and Nike were at least four times more reliable and durable than they are today. One pair of Reebok sneakers I wore for several years very intensively daily all summer and fall. Now they only last for one season. I've worn out and thrown away two pairs of mid-calf boots this winter, although about ten years ago I wore the exact same model for two years. Lighting fixtures can be made to last practically forever, and that's no secret. But I've replaced several light bulbs in the kitchen alone this year. Kettles and household appliances, all electronic equipment are made today so that they fail after two years, and people now continue to work 7-10 hours a day in order to continuously buy new appliances, cars, computers, telephones, clothes and shoes to replace the good things bought earlier, which have prematurely fallen into disrepair, spending all their energy for this purpose.
Artificial increase in sales (i.e. artificial overproduction of goods) is also connected with the creation of “fashion trends”, stimulating people's greed, unhealthy ambitions and “sense of prestige”. People are forced to buy more and more new things to replace the old, already “not prestigious”, “unfashionable”.
There is no need to say what load it creates on Nature. In fact, mankind now can be compared to a huge combine harvester, which goes around the planet and processes the resources of Nature, which it has been accumulating for millions of years, turning them into garbage. The modern economy is a garbage economy, producing garbage.
What causes this to happen?
-Because states are still focused on GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth, old-fashioned - just as in times of commodity scarcity - considering GDP growth as an unambiguous good. In reality, when the level of production of goods reached an evolutionary peak, covering all the necessary needs of people, the criterion of evaluation had to be changed. By maintaining coverage of all human needs, GDP should have begun to decline as technology continued to advance. There should have been a reorientation of the economy to a new evolutionary path of societal development. But since the leaders of the countries have not done it so far, the economy of the planet instead of its evolution has followed the path of devolution: instead of decreasing the GDP while maintaining the satisfaction of all the needs of the population by improving the quality and increasing the duration of the goods produced, freeing women from work and reducing the length of the working week, enterprises began to decrease the quality and duration of the goods produced in order to maintain and increase the GDP.
But this is a dead-end way of societal development, and humanity will not be able to follow it for a long time because the Earth's resources are limited. Not to mention that because of the work of factories and plants, there is less and less ecologically clean land, clean drinking water and clean air every year.
Trash devolutionary economy is an outmoded demonic economy based on pitting the interests of one group of people against the interests of others. Whereas spiritual (evolutionary) economy is based on the concern of each member of society for the welfare of others.
The progress of mankind should lead not to an increase, but to a REDUCTION in the production of low-quality non-food products(!!!) The sales of all non-food products should decrease, not increase!!!! And countries should be evaluated not by the quantity of plastic or iron goods produced, - not by the high level of gross domestic product (GDP), but by the quality of relations between people in them!!!!!
The evaluation of the success of a state by its GDP has been imposed on all states by bankers who want to rule the states and humanity as a whole through the financial and credit system.
That is why in Europe 30% of all produced foodstuffs are destroyed - in order not to allow lowering prices and reducing the profits of a handful of international bankers. This approach benefits only the parasites of the social organism. No one else benefits: neither our Earth, nor our rulers, nor ordinary people.
Spiritual progress is caring for the good of others. And care for the welfare of others is to produce quality durable goods, healthy food. If a businessman intentionally lowers the quality of goods or foodstuffs for the sake of his personal gain, to bring more money to his family, - if he opposes the interests of his family to the well-being and health of others - he will not be able to develop spiritually, because he goes against the interests of G-d and destroys spirituality. It is quite obvious to those who are spiritually developed: caring for the welfare of others improves the quality of our entire life!
Therefore, if we are really reasonable, adult people, and even more so if we claim to be spiritual beings, we should use the growth of technology to increase the quality of manufactured goods (not to decrease it), to reduce the quantity of production - which will reduce the load on the same consumption of energy carriers by tens and hundreds of times. Because now 90% of fuel is spent simply to move people to their place of work and back home; to transport raw materials and various goods and to dispose of them.
That is why the world's leading economists are increasingly raising the issue of shorter working hours and monthly unconditional income for citizens instead of keeping them busy producing and disposing of garbage.
Humanity is ready to embrace an evolutionary, ecological type of economy, where technology will work for the good of the planet by producing quality durable goods that will free up people's time, allowing them to turn this world into a wondrous garden.
+ Ending the depression through planned obsolescence
#capitalism #GDP #efficiency #management #planning #economy #technology #energy #workersrights #humanity #socialism #study for #future
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