A reminder for my future, maybe ours.

Today while walking the dog, we ran into a guy and his dog on their nightly walk. For some reason, my dog loves this other dog and always wants to spend time playing around with him. the owner doesn't speak English but we manage.

He used to live very close but now has moved about a kilometer further away so is very rarely in the area. The reason was that he had to sell his apartment and start renting because he had to shut down his one-person company because of legislation changes to his industry. The cost of licensing was just far too high for an individual, so much for supporting small business.

He can't by a new place until he has a job but, being in his early fifties and having worked alone for so many years, there is no one willing to take him on. So now, he is somewhat trapped with nowhere to go.

This hits home for me. I know that my time running my own small business is limited and when it does eventually end, I will not only be older, I will be an older foreigner. This is a large part of why I am trying to get some movements going now so that as things inevitably fall away in time, I will have a few revenue streams and hopefully some serious options for something else.

It scares me no end to be in a position where I am unable to earn my way and have to rely on the charity of others to live my life. I am a worker seemingly by design and no matter my financial position, that is the way I am likely to die. I don't know what I would do if in a position where I was unable to work and by extension, be unable to provide for my family. If I make it to 50, my daughter will only be 13 years of age.

I definitely don't want to be in a position where I have to rely on a government handout to survive, it is not only not my type of lifestyle, I do not want a government to have that level of control over me at any point in my life. I have made it almost 40 so far providing for myself, my goal is to make it to the end.

The problem isn't the type of job either as I am one of those people that will do essentially anything if circumstance requires it of me. Add my daughter's well-being into the mix and there may be very few limitations indeed.

The problem is that even the willingness to work doesn't guarantee work nor does having the skills to do the work as going forward, automation and artificial intelligence will increasingly push humans out of the job markets. Sure, that might lead to some utopia where no one need work but even if it does, there is going to be a very difficult transition period. I feel that I am smack bang in the middle of the people who will suffer greatly but never see the benefits.

Not many people want to acknowledge this likely period. It is easy to look into the past and think that jobs will move into other sectors but, this time it will be different. Even if it is similar and people do move, how many are going to be stuck in the area of untrainable with skills that are required unattainable?

I don't think people fully appreciate what is likely coming in the future and how important places like Steemit will be for closing gaps in income for the part-time and unemployed who have very limited options. There are going to be some seriously over-qualified people out of work in the near future.

This is why I am going long. Benefiting in the short term is all well and good but, it doesn't plug those future holes unless I can earn a massive amount more, which is unlikely considering the work I already put in. Yeah, perhaps everything hits the moon and the sun and the stars. Is that really a plan for the future?

As this global shift of employment opportunity grows and speeds up, many, many more people are going to be looking for additional ways to attempt to secure their own futures. They will realise, jobs for life are gone, governments can't support so many unemployed, education prices increase heavily, the returns on traditional investments are falling and the Keynesian economic models continue to fail largr and larger at global levels.

What this means is at some point, the flood gates into monetized platforms, cryptocurrencies and anything that offers additional revenue streams will open and there will be a rush in. Even now, where do you think most signups are coming from? Check the last 100 in the introduceyourself tag and tell me if they are likely to be high earners in the real world.

This is a glimpse of the future as the national economies of the past fail to satisfy the needs of the present. If you don't see the cracks already, you should get your eyes, ears and every other sense checked. In past times of great inequalities, the great levelers were wars. We might not be too far away.

Poverty and large economic disparity has always been a major reason for every war for probably ever. The ones who profiteer from the war are also the drivers for them, the governments and conglomerates. Perhaps it is no surprise how many dynasties are made in times of major conflict. Perhaps the disparity is engineered as a way to solidify their positions at the top. Would a conspiracy like that surprise you?

It is a strange world we live in when we have so many obvious problems and the only real solution is to get over ourselves and cooperate to solve some of them. But, time and time again we have failed and instead play out the same patterns dictated by control and authority.

The same patters exist here. The inherited traits from the autocratic world of history and coding it into the future claiming it as a solution. If the behaviors of people don't change, the results will always be the same. At some point though, there will be no war as an economic leveler, the war will level everything.

I guess in that case though, I won't have to worry about getting a job but, it likely won't come early enough to help the guy with and his dog.

Taraz
[ a Steemit original ]