The Influence of The Technology

The technology allows to increase working time, productivity and consequently reducing the unit prices of the product.

      The mass consumer capitalism has opted for an income increase of the proletariat and the middle class, so you can access to consumer goods and increase the market because more people can buy consumer goods. In a society of mass consumption of the worker’s salary is above mere subsistence, but not above the demand for necessary goods. Basic needs have increased and are still created through advertising.

      The increased productive capacity implies a need for less labor to produce the same, thereby increasing unemployment in global terms. It also runs the risk of overproduction and excess demand. The increase in unemployment and job insecurity, reduces the overall purchasing power and real household spending.

      The technology allows the creation of new jobs and services, thus not all the jobs destroyed becomes unemployed, but the new jobs created are less than those destroyed. The application of information technology services sector has been a dramatic increase in unemployment, since there is no transfer of workers to other sectors. However, it is precisely the new technologies applied to the Internet and electronic commerce in the short term they are creating more jobs. The symbol of this is the “plastic money” and ATMs with which you can have money to eat in a fast and easy. The banks are working the clock, but not its employees.

      The trend is that machines and computers every day occupy a more central, and its use is becoming more individualized and selective. The work tasks have changed in all sectors, from agriculture to services, through the industry, thanks to the machines. Today the worker is primarily an operator of a machine.

      The technology allows developed countries to have information from all over the world in record time. A world without distance in which each is known news and event anywhere. The global village in which everything is connected.

      However, even in developed countries, this is no less an illusion. Social differences and marginalization are produced both by the economic situation, such as differences in access to information and transport. The Third World, mostly oblivious to these developments is that they are, rather, characteristic of the developed capitalist mass consumption.

      In capitalist society the same access to information, the middle class and the bourgeoisie, and even the proletariat, a sense of equal opportunity does not take into account the starting position to exploit them. The technology thus has a propaganda effect and a showcase of capitalism, very effective.

      The greatest danger is that the widespread use of technology, comfort and information to prevent us from seeing how our society in their everyday relations, economic and social. The myth of the objective, and that each draw their own conclusions, it is false, since the excess of information prevents reflection and analysis, and lack of ideological training deprives us of an effective tool for the analysis of reality. The differences in education translate into differences in opinion and these social differences.