Q: What is automation strategy?
It is fast food.
Automation strategy means building stuff that is idiot-proof. Breaking down complex tasks into simple ones so that it takes less and less skill to do any single part of the entire task. It means turning a craftsman into an assembly line worker. It means turning a programmer into a program. It means making things easy for people and machines that don’t think.
It means you go up to the counter and ask for a Big Mac, because it’s easy and because the people behind the counter only know how to cook what’s on the menu.
It means that the moment something goes wrong, somebody has to call the supervisor because they are just a small cog in a big machine and they don’t get paid to think.
It means doctors don’t make house calls and know your name, but they work under the government regulations for universal healthcare and you can click on a website and get a healthcare provider, but not a doctor who knows you.
It means you get a car that you cannot fix. Or that you don’t even get your own car. You get public transportation and the bus automatically goes on the same path, and the bus driver will be replaced by a machine.
It means you don’t have to know arithmetic or carry cash, because instead of a cash register there is a little computer on your wrist that automatically debits your account for you. So you don’t have to trust a human being to give you the right change.
It means you don’t have to learn landmarks or compass directions or how to read a map, because there are GPS satellites flying overhead that know where you are and your phone tells you how to get where you want to go.
It means you become a smaller person because everything is automatically done for you. It means you are a child and that you have created a new verb called ‘adulting’.
It’s http://grammarly.com because you didn’t study grammar in school, so now you can have a service that helps you write.
It means you can have sex anytime you like because you can take a pill that automatically takes away the reproductive capability of your reproductive organs. It means you can got to a pickup bar, because it’s there and everybody automatically knows that. It means you can have a job where you don’t operate heavy machinery or physically intense jobs, so you can smoke weed if you like.
it means that you don’t have to search for culture because if you like one song a service will automatically find other songs like that. If you like one book, a service will automatically find you another. And when you buy it, it automatically lets people know that you want them to automatically find stuff for you. So they build systems to automatically track you and automatically influence your decisions.
It means you are afraid to take charge of your own life and work hard to learn things. It means you are afraid to fail, so you want the automated cheat codes. It means you think less of your fellow human beings because you think they are lazy and trifling like you. It means you have to depend on government to guarantee you a minimum wage. It means you are just one step above slavery because you are afraid of being a whole, free, responsible human being.
It’s fast food.
Or you could learn to cook instead.
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