Labor Automation: A Phenomenological and Historical Perspective

Abstract

Technique, science and technology, throughout the history of humanity, have played a fundamental role, not only because of the benefits that their development has brought with it, either because individuals can see them for themselves, or because the externality of which they are a part has forced them to see it that way, but also because of the effects they cause, directly and indirectly; or simply because such advances cannot even be accessed, because they are not for everyone. The automation of the operational workforce is one of these scientific-technological advances that have taken the essence of technology to a new level, technifying life, social interactions and the functions performed by humans. In order to dispense with the human, where everything and everyone is replaceable, where the care of the other and of the other is not conceived; where consumption, increased productivity and the attainment of wealth for a few are promoted. And, consequently, the increase in poverty, the widening of the gap and technological illiteracy, among other deleterious effects. This writing makes an analysis of the automation of employment, the external factors that have influenced technological progress and the part that few recognize or highlight of automation, the displacement of the human being at the hands of technology, its already evident consequences and of the possible future.