Didn't manage to write anything for the whole week because of work! And I guess even though it wasn't the most meaningful or fun work, it definitely has a lot of things for me to learn from!

In business, the customers always wants the best. They will always push for the best bargain, lowest price, best quality. So on and so forth. Its up to the producer to meet such demands, regardless of how ridiculous they are. The only way to reverse the situation is where no one else in the market are able to do otherwise.

In other words, the customers get the first turn, the advantage. Once it is outplayed, things fall back to the producer, even though the customer's got the money. Because every producer would now exploit the customer. And ironically, the customer is at the producer's mercy despite holding on to the chips.

While at work, my supervisor, someone really nice to us generally, pointed out that even though we had nothing on our hands to do, we shouldn't help him with his chores. Reason being we're the educated youth, and should work holding pens instead of a screwdriver or hammer.

Right now, everywhere in the world, governments think that the way to combat poverty in their country is through education. In view of this, wouldn't the majority of the population be relatively higher educated than what we see today? Wouldn't we all work, then, with just pens?

Who's gonna hold the hammer and screwdrivers?

Someone has to do it. Obviously none of the educated ones will want to do it, then labour-intensive workers would be in huge demand. How then will we survive? These are the questions I kept asking during my employment time.

The only answer I came up with is hardly realistic, yet not completely out of the picture.

Robots, machines, you name it.

Objects that are designed to overtake human expertise in the near future. Mass production is hardly avaliable currently, but would probably be in the near future.

I thought I had all the answers. Then I hit another roadblock.

In my employment period, the main assignment was to test and ensure the accuracy of the machine to be sold, such that the customers would be satisfied and trust such machines to take care of mass production. It was nowhere near an easy job. Sure it ain't labour intensive to do testing in a sample, but neither was it relaxing.

Machines, although less error prone as compared to humans, lack the ability to accurately identify their own mistakes and therefore correct them. Do not misunderstand me though, most machines in our current industries have a proof-reading function that allows products that are not produced properly to be separated from the rest.

Problem is, even the proof-read mechanism is a machine. Without real human supervision, nothing can be guranteed. This brings me back, then how can we really survive just on machines and robots in our lifes? The manpower to supervise them would not come from the educated. And again, a shortage of labour would surface.

I really wonder, how the world would change in the next decade or so. Since every politician would term the change as positive. Maybe I should rephrase and say,

I wonder, how the world would evolve in the near future.