If there is one word to summarize what is ruining our lives it is….EFFICIENCY!( We can include in that term cost-cutting as a financial form of efficiency).Efficiency,so touted by our politicians,economists and other management intelligentsia, is causing people to be more and more stressed out and overwhelmed at their workplaces.Efficiency is causing our foods to be contaminated with artificial fertilizers and pesticides and OGMs.Efficiency is causing our construction materials to be more and more contaminated with cancerogenic ingredients.And efficiency is causing us to abandon our children to commercial day-cares and our elderly to old peoples homes.Interesting that not a single Democratic candidate including the hallowed Bernie Sanders is bringing this up.That is because they are all socially conditioned by materialistic philosophies-Socialism/Marxism being just one amongst others.All of them value measurable results-another form of so-called efficiency.All of this is killing our hearts,ruining our relationships and creating a greedy,egocentric society!
Efficiency, first developed by Henry Ford and other crass capitalists at the turn of the last century was designed to replace human attributes and formulate working environments that could be manned by automatons or that required a much lower form of human development.
Of course, all of these jobs are now being replaced by actual automatons or A.I. but, the general population has not realized that the qualities they exhibit, ie highly efficient, psychopathic and unimaginative will very soon be obsolete.
Maybe that’s a good thing?
The Arts and crafts movement in England was a solution and creative response to the mechanization of Industry.