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L. Creator, Company, Corporate, Cooperative or Capital Which is the Economy of the Future?
You see, it is no more which one will survive, as survival of none of these is desirable to the capitalists in the first place. They do not want you. You also do not want yourself. You want and love your cars and money, and the capitalists also love and want your money, and serve your car with other machines.
Your unemployment, broken family, loneliness, fear nothing matters to the system anymore. Your need has finished. How do you know that this claim that your need has finished is true?
- From drivers employed by car companies, and drivers working under the umbrella of union, we had Ola and Uber freelance drivers hopping between brands. Now we have all the technology push for driverless cars.
- Swiggy, Zomato built a delivery network, and now Amazon is pushing Drone-delivery.
- Marketing had content writers from the beginning of the internet, and now we have AI writing content.
- Sales calls were outsourced in the past to third-world countries, and now that is replaced by machines making the calls.
- Fiverr offered youth to leave their jobs and become freelancers. Now almost 70% of freelancing tasks are being performed by generative AI.
- Banks are replaced by Apps. Stock brokers are replaced by Smart and Intelligent stock suggesting apps. Physicians are replaced by medicines.
- Theatre, Drama, and Puppet shows were replaced by movies, which were replaced by web series, which are now brought down to 15s shots by individuals, and now AI will create these shots.
One of the important things to remember is that it is very hard(and nearly impossible) for any individual to serve a large number of individuals over a sustained period of time. Any such thoughts or feelings are just mirages.
Raw material from production to distribution to the selling of anything(including software) is so complex, that as the scale increase, the complexity increase. No individuals or small groups can serve such complex systems. The way machines can serve machines, and humans do business with humans, the exact same way systems are served by the systems.
The smaller service system(including one that is created by solopreneurs and freelancers) are easily replaceable.
Small systems are like coriander farming. They can be capitalized early but would have be repeated over and over again to derive livelihood out of coriander farming. On the other hand, when you take care of some mango plants(or a mango garden, it takes longer time to give you fruit, but once the mango garden starts giving you output, they outperform years of capital income from coriander farming. Furthermore, it is easier for pets like cats and dogs, and birds to destroy a coriander field, but it is super hard for the mango garden to be destroyed.
Is is not worth leaving toxic corporate culture?
Anything that is big and complex and that intends to serve a large number of consumers over a sustained period of time has to completely crush any feelings and work like a mechanical system. Whether it is a production line, the shipment you saw, or even the creativity.
You can’t Scare me, I work for James Cameron!
James Cameron is one of the Holywood Directors, who has pushed film-making beyond boundaries. His movies Terminator 2, Avatar, and Titanic, have not only been some of the box office nuclear bombs, but his movies have been way ahead of their time in technology use and production values.
James Cameron is hated almost by all the cast and crew members he has worked with. No break, including no pee break, only one tea break, tough routines, and angry outbursts would make anyone feel dehumanized. In the movie True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger got pee in a fighter plane scene but Cameron denied giving him a break and asked “What would you do if you were a pilot and flying amongst enemy planes and got pee?”
Kate Winslet got pneumonia on the sets of Titanic but had to continue to shoot.
His crew would always come out of T-shirts like “You can’t scare me, I work for James Cameron”
If the above story is what you mean by toxic corporate, then all the good production is always toxic. The satisfaction is in the outcome of the production, not during the production. If one seeks comfort during production, then the outcome wouldn’t be as perfect as it needs to be in order to survive the competition and withstand any changes.
Steve Jobs was also infamous for pushing his team to the limits. Work has to be focused, highest quality, and intense, in order for the outcome to be robust and timeless. If you are looking for good feelings during your work, then know for a certainty that you are part of a mediocre production. Another team with intense psychopathy-like goal-centricity would outcompete your team.
Food is hard in the animal kingdom. A lion has to go through 70 failed attempts for each successful game. Feelings are for the family, work demands intensity, because work offers satisfaction, the way family offers healing!
The problem is today the families are so much in disarray that people are looking for healing from their work as they are putting intense effort to keep their families.