BGS Once Again Wrong on Automation.

So, I was recently listening to one of BGS IBMOR’s 8 hrs. hangouts when the topic of automation came to the forefront. Now mind you I have heard this man speak on automation many times before. He first started to doing it in earnest in 2016. At that time, he called it he 4^th industrial revolution. Everyone was mesmerized by it because it was the first time such information had really been marketed to black people in a big way. But in reality, it was just information that had all ready been written about all over the internet for the previous decade and was really nothing new. The basic premise is that automation will take over the economy in the coming decades and that many ordinary people will be displaced from their jobs in the future. He says that he is doing this so that black people can prepare for what’s coming in the future but I have already exposed BGS as a classical Marxist on my channel and you can find the video here https://bit.ly/2YO7Wr3 . I don’t play around when it comes to my research. The reality is that BGS and those like him are Marxist castaways floating around in the ocean in the wake of the long dead Soviet Union. People of his ilk are desperately searching for a modern vehicle to attach themselves too to somehow justify their still beheld beliefs on communism and modern communist China is that vehicle. Never mind that China only rose to prominence off of the back of a consumer driven capitalist economy (The United States), that information is always left out when it comes to these types. But the idea is that the supposed new automated economy is going to create a jobless landscape in which Marxist principles like a Universal Basic Income and the like will have to be implemented. Factories will operate all on their own, humans will simply have to insert raw materials into one end of the factory and luxury automobiles will come out of the other end. Trucks and care will be completely automated eliminating the need for drivers (this one makes me laugh). And the only thing left or humans to do will be to sit around and collect and UBI check. This post is meant to refute all that.

In this article https://bit.ly/2QgrjG9 the notion is once again presented of the myth of automation. The point is made that corporations tend to try to find cheaper ways to implement labor not invest in expensive capital projects. “While technology may displace older job skills, new work demands emerge. Most corporations seek to protect their vested interests (maximizing profit) while keeping shareholders sweet, which often means searching for cheaper labor rather than investing in expensive capital infrastructures.” This shows the businesses and corporations will not readily go the automation route like BGS ibmor claims. BGS ibmor talks in terms of the US having to compete with china s a means of automating but chines automation is not happening at a non-parallel pace to the US at all and their whole manufacturing sector is dependent on making cheap goods and shipping them to the US. China is now locked in a huge trade war with the US now because of policies of the trump administration, this will definitely affect china’s bottom line but people like BGS IBMOR want to pretend like it’s going to hurt the US more than it hurts China.

Automation takes time energy and resources to implement. This stuff is not cheap. Research and Development is very expensive for corporations and there is no guarantee that such projects will produce a profit yield in the future. As the old saying goes, time is money and no one wants to be the one who spent time and did not produce a justifiable profit for it. Many times, is cheaper for a corporation to go with a low-tech solution, (using manual labors) than implementing a high-tech infrastructure that is not proven. Also no one is taking into account the legal ramifications. What happens when a self-driving truck or care kills someone? Who is liable? Google is deploying self-driving cars via UBER; however, they are only allowed to go on land that google owns with the self-driving capability turned on. Once off those premises the car will disengage and tell the driver that they have to drive it. These cars have already killed a number of people (so much for them being safer than human drivers) and google has left the families in a legal limbo. These questions will have to be answered before a definitive future for self-driving vehicles can even BEGIN to be conceived. But yet people like BGS ibmor refuse to acknowledge this because it goes against their narrative.

So, when one actually does some thinking it seems that the American Marxist future really DOES have some issues with it. Who would have thought? When you only look at articles that support your viewpoint and don’t even take into account what actually happens in the business world and factor that in you get the thoughts of a guy like BGS IBMOR, a man who thinks that everything he reads in articles is gospel truth and will come to pass.