Workers must learn best way to benefit from technology

George Wright

1995

Published in:

Technocracy Digest, 1st quarter 1996, No. 319

Editor, Seattle P.I., Seattle, Wash., November 1995

The strike against the Boeing Co. is generating headlines these days. It is a showcase of the futile attempts to somehow divvy up a fair share of the rewards for work accomplished by people. The managers at Boeing are under pressure from stockholders to maintain, or increase, the value of their shares. Employees feel threatened that, not only will they have reduced income, but that their jobs will be offloaded elsewhere.

That scenario is being repeated throughout the country. What we fail to grasp, is that we should have come 'way past this type of behavior years ago. As this society advanced technologically, the need for human labor decreased to the point that, at best, we have become just machine tenders and office junkies. Technology should be for people, rather than for profit.

For-profit-only, benefits a declining part of our society. Someone once said, ``The poor are always with us.'' Technocracy's blueprint for the physical operation of our Continent illustrates just how to use technology for the enhancement of the human condition. If we continue much longer to ignore the pressing social problems, caused by the inability of our present method of governance to tend to the legitimate needs of its citizens, chaos will govern. We are better than that.

I believe, given correct information, that the people of our country can make intelligent decisions concerning what's best for them and for our fellow creatures. Investigate Technocracy. See for yourself what is possible. We might not have much time.

-- George Wright,
Staff Coordinator,
The Northwest Technocrat.