1 00:00:00,185 --> 00:00:03,064 And now to the stunning and exciting news, 2 00:00:03,181 --> 00:00:05,628 which I believe you'll agree, shows once again 3 00:00:05,730 --> 00:00:09,653 that at Whipple's we only take forward steps. 4 00:00:12,289 --> 00:00:17,475 This is the X109 B-14 modified, transistorized, 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,077 totally automatic assembly machine which 6 00:00:21,225 --> 00:00:28,739 eliminates 61,000 jobs, 73 bulky, inefficient machines, 7 00:00:29,243 --> 00:00:35,578 81,000 needless man-hours per 11 working days and 8 00:00:35,789 --> 00:00:40,050 4 million dollars in expenditures each year 9 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:45,021 for employee hospitalization, employee insurance, employee welfare, 10 00:00:45,141 --> 00:00:47,511 and employee profit participation. 11 00:00:47,759 --> 00:00:51,158 Within six months our entire production facilities 12 00:00:51,291 --> 00:00:55,237 will be totally automated. Ladies and gentleman, 13 00:00:55,409 --> 00:00:58,360 from now on, Whipple will operate from a brain center 14 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,776 with machines such as this one. 15 00:01:02,982 --> 00:01:08,592 (Roxanne Meadows) Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MIT 16 00:01:08,803 --> 00:01:12,478 that states that our middle class is obsolete 17 00:01:12,678 --> 00:01:15,860 and being replaced by automation. 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,860 (Peter Joseph) Quite simply, mechanization is more productive, 19 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 efficient and sustainable than human labor 20 00:01:22,250 --> 00:01:24,988 in virtually every sector of the economy today. 21 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,970 Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions, 22 00:01:29,110 --> 00:01:32,160 and they can work 24 hours a day, every day. 23 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:33,860 The output potential and accuracy, 24 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,094 compared to human labor, is unmatched. 25 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:40,200 The bottom line: repetitive human labor 26 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:43,960 is becoming obsolete and impractical across the world, 27 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:46,960 and the unemployment you see around you today 28 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:49,129 is fundamentally the result of this evolution 29 00:01:49,269 --> 00:01:51,929 of efficiency in technology. 30 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:56,160 For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern, 31 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,200 which could be called 'Technological Unemployment' 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,149 because of the fact that new sectors always seem to emerge 33 00:02:02,350 --> 00:02:05,360 to re-absorb the displaced workers. 34 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,614 Today, the service sector is the only real hub left 35 00:02:08,754 --> 00:02:12,159 and currently employs over 80% of the American work force, 36 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:16,319 with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion. 37 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:19,970 However, this sector is now being challenged increasingly 38 00:02:20,199 --> 00:02:22,860 by automated kiosks, automated restaurants, 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,210 and even automated stores. 40 00:02:25,729 --> 00:02:27,729 Economists today are finally acknowledging 41 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:29,900 what they have been denying for years. 42 00:02:30,009 --> 00:02:32,192 Not only is technological unemployment 43 00:02:32,332 --> 00:02:36,000 exasperating the current labor crisis we see across the world 44 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,700 due to the global economic downturn, 45 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:40,890 but the more the recession deepens 46 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,252 the faster the industries are mechanizing. 47 00:02:43,424 --> 00:02:45,140 The catch, which is not realized, 48 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,000 is that the faster they mechanize to save money, 49 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:49,810 the more they displace people, 50 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 the more they reduce public purchasing power. 51 00:02:53,467 --> 00:02:56,110 This means that while the corporation can produce everything 52 00:02:56,250 --> 00:02:59,547 more cheaply, fewer and fewer people will actually have money 53 00:02:59,649 --> 00:03:03,100 to buy anything, regardless of how cheap they become. 54 00:03:03,548 --> 00:03:06,558 The bottom line is that the labor-for-income game 55 00:03:06,683 --> 00:03:09,000 is slowly coming to an end. 56 00:03:09,170 --> 00:03:11,570 In fact, if you take a moment to reflect 57 00:03:11,727 --> 00:03:13,900 on the jobs which are in existence today, 58 00:03:14,243 --> 00:03:17,714 which automation could take over right now if applied, 59 00:03:17,987 --> 00:03:20,860 75% of the global workforce could be replaced 60 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,260 by mechanization tomorrow. 61 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:28,270 - Tell me, you really expect to automate this place in six months? 62 00:03:28,381 --> 00:03:30,900 - Hmm, four months would be a better guess. 63 00:03:31,210 --> 00:03:34,546 You know there are a lot of things going in the old trash heap, Hanley? 64 00:03:34,734 --> 00:03:38,385 Time clocks for instance: there won't be anybody to punch in or out. 65 00:03:38,596 --> 00:03:42,542 [Chuckling] I think I'll donate them to a museum. 66 00:03:43,895 --> 00:03:45,395 [More chuckling] 67 00:03:46,271 --> 00:03:47,771 Something, Hanley? 68 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:52,394 - Yes, something. Something like, a lot of men out of work! 69 00:03:52,634 --> 00:03:53,860 - You know what your trouble is, Hanley? 70 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,500 You're holding on tight to this 19th century. 71 00:03:57,750 --> 00:04:00,979 - I'm holding tight to some principles, Mr. Whipple, 72 00:04:01,250 --> 00:04:03,650 some principles that have to do with firing. 73 00:04:04,667 --> 00:04:06,360 Tell me, Mr. Whipple, why are you so eager 74 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:09,500 to replace men with machines? 75 00:04:09,753 --> 00:04:13,115 Ever occur to you that you might be trading efficiency for pride? 76 00:04:13,255 --> 00:04:16,310 - Pride? - Yes pride, Mr. Whipple, craftsmanship: 77 00:04:16,450 --> 00:04:18,948 what a man feels when he makes something! 78 00:04:19,088 --> 00:04:21,235 Tell me, what do you suppose that machine of yours feels? 79 00:04:21,375 --> 00:04:23,160 Anything? Anything at all? 80 00:04:23,260 --> 00:04:25,260 - What the devil can I do with pride! 81 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,460 Can it? bottle it? wrap it? produce it? 82 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,335 I'm not selling pride; I'm selling product! 83 00:04:30,483 --> 00:04:34,860 However we're not only faced with ongoing systemic global debt defaults, 84 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,147 we're also faced with incoming labor collapse 85 00:04:37,287 --> 00:04:39,860 or growing labor collapse across the world, 86 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,860 due to again, technological unemployment 87 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,860 largely ignored by economists 88 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,200 who choose to see basically what they prefer to see, as best I can tell. 89 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:49,330 The invention and application of technology 90 00:04:49,445 --> 00:04:51,545 is what has caused every major shift of human labor 91 00:04:51,685 --> 00:04:55,410 throughout history. Given the exponential- literally- 92 00:04:55,510 --> 00:04:57,510 rise in our development in automation 93 00:04:57,635 --> 00:05:00,744 and computer technology, artificial intelligence, 94 00:05:00,884 --> 00:05:03,665 I'm sorry to say, well actually, I'm very happy to say, 95 00:05:03,892 --> 00:05:06,110 is that humans really don't stand a chance 96 00:05:06,250 --> 00:05:08,760 to compete with what we've created. 97 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:13,049 We can't personally evolve as fast as our technological ingenuity is. 98 00:05:13,842 --> 00:05:17,089 And the effectiveness and application over time is just powerful, 99 00:05:17,382 --> 00:05:19,050 and either a shift happens, 100 00:05:19,190 --> 00:05:22,860 or we just continue this constant grind down 101 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,900 of destabilization through global unemployment. 102 00:05:28,132 --> 00:05:31,162 - Now you realize that this somewhat wholesale discharge 103 00:05:31,302 --> 00:05:34,287 has nothing whatever to do with dissatisfaction on your part or 104 00:05:34,459 --> 00:05:37,872 that as a man. It's merely progress, Mr. Dickerson, progress! 105 00:05:38,012 --> 00:05:40,567 Out with the old, in with the new, automation! 106 00:05:40,762 --> 00:05:42,490 That will be all, Mr. Dickerson. 107 00:05:43,373 --> 00:05:46,621 We also need to use the most efficient methods 108 00:05:46,781 --> 00:05:48,646 for producing those goods 109 00:05:48,786 --> 00:05:51,094 and in this case, deliberate mechanization. 110 00:05:51,234 --> 00:05:53,420 Technological Unemployment- and I've talked about this at length, 111 00:05:53,660 --> 00:05:55,460 I'm not going to go into too much detail here- 112 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,360 is now inverse to productivity in most sectors. 113 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:03,629 In other words, the more people are displaced, 114 00:06:03,769 --> 00:06:06,600 the more mechanization comes in, the greater the productivity. 115 00:06:07,605 --> 00:06:10,480 That's an amazing change in the paradigm 116 00:06:10,582 --> 00:06:13,400 as far as the way we've been operating for thousands of years. 117 00:06:13,911 --> 00:06:17,026 This means in fact it is negligent, literally irresponsible 118 00:06:17,127 --> 00:06:19,800 for us to not mechanize on every relevant level 119 00:06:19,909 --> 00:06:22,109 if we wish to be again truly efficient 120 00:06:22,209 --> 00:06:26,292 and respect the nature and habitat that we live in. 121 00:06:27,730 --> 00:06:30,747 - Shall I tell you the difference, Mr. Dickerson, between you and it? 122 00:06:30,887 --> 00:06:34,842 That machine costs two cents an hour for current. It lasts indefinitely. 123 00:06:34,982 --> 00:06:38,407 It gets no wrinkles, no arthritis, no hardening of the arteries. 124 00:06:38,547 --> 00:06:42,494 That one machine is a lathe operator, a press operator. 125 00:06:42,713 --> 00:06:45,869 Two of those machines replace 114 men 126 00:06:45,969 --> 00:06:50,629 that take no coffee breaks, no sick leaves, no vacations with pay! 127 00:06:50,753 --> 00:06:53,040 Oh! Hanley, this should interest you. 128 00:06:53,550 --> 00:06:56,000 This is a Tape Control 7 Axis. 129 00:06:56,557 --> 00:06:59,582 What do they they call it- a 'Sentry.' You know what it does? 130 00:06:59,745 --> 00:07:03,383 It keeps an eye on every operation in the entire plant. 131 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:08,106 It keeps absolutely accurate data on man hours, cost hours, 132 00:07:08,238 --> 00:07:10,238 product rejects, just everything! 133 00:07:10,443 --> 00:07:13,930 It's the most sophisticated machine I've ever seen. I just bought it. 134 00:07:18,550 --> 00:07:21,100 - And how many men does it replace? 135 00:07:21,550 --> 00:07:25,321 - Oh well, this should please you, only one, just one. 136 00:07:25,573 --> 00:07:27,759 As a matter of fact, Hanley, it replaces you. 137 00:07:38,435 --> 00:07:42,162 A perfect letter, not one error or erasure, 138 00:07:42,435 --> 00:07:45,154 typed at the moment of conception. Am I getting through to you, young man? 139 00:07:45,263 --> 00:07:48,033 - I presume you mean that secretaries are obsolete now. 140 00:07:48,236 --> 00:07:51,227 - Precisely obsolete, and do you know what else it means? 141 00:07:51,467 --> 00:07:54,572 It means there will be no more powder rooms, no more coffee breaks, 142 00:07:54,789 --> 00:07:57,949 no more work stoppages due to various and sundry inconveniences 143 00:07:58,049 --> 00:08:00,305 such as maternity and that sort of thing. 144 00:08:00,445 --> 00:08:02,560 - Inconveniences like maternity? 145 00:08:03,630 --> 00:08:05,310 You'll have to forgive me, Mr. Whipple, 146 00:08:05,450 --> 00:08:06,950 but if we keep up with this sort of thing, 147 00:08:07,050 --> 00:08:10,000 we're going to have wonderful products, but mighty few people to buy them. 148 00:08:10,250 --> 00:08:12,481 - Hapley, that is not my concern. 149 00:08:12,719 --> 00:08:16,000 I am here to provide efficiency, that is my only concern! 150 00:08:20,108 --> 00:08:23,920 (Carl Sagan) Scientists never seem to grasp the enormous potential 151 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:29,934 of machines to free people from arduous and repetitive labor. 152 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:37,127 (Timothy Leary) What would we do if we didn't have to work all the time? 153 00:08:37,267 --> 00:08:40,572 The answer to the new question- what is human life about? 154 00:08:40,689 --> 00:08:42,410 what are we going to do with all this time? 155 00:08:42,550 --> 00:08:45,740 Up until this time you had to work. 156 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,290 We now realize that it is an insult for any American citizen 157 00:08:49,430 --> 00:08:53,030 to be forced to do a job that can be done better by a machine! 158 00:08:53,730 --> 00:08:56,730 I propose this, I want you to think about this: 159 00:08:57,105 --> 00:09:00,397 let's realize that work is something done by robots, 160 00:09:00,503 --> 00:09:08,276 so the new motto becomes "Robots work, human beings perform." 161 00:09:13,517 --> 00:09:15,020 - How are you finding retirement? 162 00:09:15,521 --> 00:09:18,119 - Oh tolerable, Mr. Whipple, tolerable. 163 00:09:18,764 --> 00:09:23,016 I manage to keep busy, not as much as I'd like. My... 164 00:09:23,615 --> 00:09:27,527 wife says I'm underfoot, but ah, I do all right. 165 00:09:28,145 --> 00:09:31,629 But you know it's kind of nice to sleep late in the mornings? 166 00:09:33,689 --> 00:09:38,890 - It's important, this retirement I mean, very important. 167 00:09:40,204 --> 00:09:43,430 Man should have time for leisure when he grows older. 168 00:09:44,486 --> 00:09:47,500 It's important he have time for leisure.