Name: Jacque Fresco - Technology & Unemployment - Dec. 12, 2010
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Past simple

-Rifkin? -Rifkin, yes. Jeremy Rifkin said:

"Madagascar.... Certain islands produce vanilla flavor.

It's one of the most popular flavors for ice-cream and candy.

but it takes a lot of nurturing and work."

synthetic vanilla, same atomic structure.

versus $25. That's going to wipe out all the island's survivors

the farmers, you understand, in Madagascar.

There are always people that think they won't be wiped out

that program sequences of car production.

They get all the workers together to work as a team

and they move the machines at a certain speed.

Then they pick it up a little to get the guys working faster.

If they complain too much, they're canned.

They keep running the machines faster until a person

slows up. When he slows up there's a light that blinks at his station

and after hours, they have company dinners

They have no hobby, thinking or anything else

Do you understand? There are psychological problems.

(Intv) The company is like their 'family' more than their real family.

- Yes, the company pushes and shoves to see how much it can get out of them.

What you have to remember is that the company will not succeed

better than Toyota. You know what I mean?

They can't. The whole world today depends on

If you have machines doing most of the work

like computer programmers. They all make recommendations

in the automobile production field, not in thinking.

Their devotion to the company is like a mother.

Without that mother, they'd have no jobs.

There's new organizations forming in Japan

that try to counteract that, but that doesn't bring any money to Japan

You can't counteract something unless you bring something new.

(Intv) They don't give many social services over there either, do they?

-They do have some. The Japanese that have been laid off

and those affiliated with good will and all that

Japan doesn't have the social services the US has, yet.

When they get laid off there is no future. There's nothing they can study

and they have a hell of a lot of computer programmers in Japan.

He used to say "The wheels come on. Now they go to painting."

The guy in charge used to be in the front office.

They dress like the working man; they wear the same clothing

and that's to make them feel that they're all one.

American engineers went to Japan to study their system

That's what 'time-and-motion people' are.

They get more motion out of people in less time.

If you assemble certain things using a straight assembly bench

and so you can assemble things faster, but you don't get paid more.

Do you know what I mean? So 'time-and-motion men'

are also engineers who try to get the most motion

in the least amount of time out of most people.

to study stress levels and stop [it] at a certain point.

That does not help the company, do you understand?

That's why they don't have psychological fatigue studies

but we would have that because that means more hospitalization.

the company doesn't pay for it, the worker pays for it

so that's his problem. If he gets sick or has a nervous breakdown

and has to go to a psychologist or to a hospital.

because it doesn't do them any good to find out what the level is.

I think it would do them good, but they don't understand that.

All they have are charts of production levels.

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Jacque Fresco - Technology & Unemployment - Dec. 12, 2010

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