Whether we have marshal law or conventional law, by reducing consumption in our socioeconomic structure, our Price System, employment is correspondently reduced. Because 95 percent reduction in consumption will so drastically affect employment it will create a state of panic whether we have marshal or conventional law. It appears that Technocracy is alone in realizing that because we function with a Price System in our advanced technological age, the change in the time rate of doing work has forced us to be gluttons. In primitive colonial times our nation s production was strictly hand-tool. For centuries metal ferrous and others was fashioned by the blacksmith with a sledge hammer and anvil, strictly hand-tool.
Nobody uses that method today.
In modern times, the work force need in metal fabrication per unit of production is trivial in comparison what it used to take. I m 87, born in 1912. While I don t remember the exact year, it probably was 1921 that our class went on a field trip to the telephone company and I have a vivid recollection of it. Banks of women at switch boards doing hand-tool, grueling, monotones, tedious work. Computers, with a skeleton look see force have replaced that multitude of hand-tool people who composed the old workforce.