Compiled   by London swaminathan

Date: 19 November 2015

POST No. 2343
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Shovels and Spoons

The economic fallacy of unemployment arising from machinery is well illustrated by the two workmen who watched with awe the performance of a huge steam shovel which took up many tons of earth in one bite.

Said one of them, “if it wasn’t for that blasted scoop, five hundred of us might be working with shovels.”

“Yes”, was the reply of the other, “and if it wasn’t for our shovels, a million of us might be working with spoons.”

You are charging me too much!

The value of specialised training is exemplified in this little episode.

The car simply would not run. The mechanic was called in, lifted the hood, reached inside, gave a twist of the wrist to a little mechanism — – all was well.

“What do I owe you?”

“Fifteen dollars and fifty cents”, said the mechanic.

“Great Heavens!”, remonstrated the car owner.

“It seems like an awful lot for just twisting a little gadget. How do you itemize it?”

“Well”, said the mechanic, “for twisting the little gadget – fifty cents. For knowing which little gadget to twist – ten dollars.”

When typewriting machine was invented, there was a big protest against using them. The protesters who were clerks in the courts and copyists of the Bible said that they would lose jobs and there would be big unemployment.

When computerisation was implemented in the banks in India, the bank staff protested saying that this would cause thousands of job losses. Now we laugh at all such protests. When one limb loses its power, other limbs get extraordinary powers; and in the same way one invention may cause job loss, but it creates jobs too.

When Sony invented Walkman it was a big milestone in listening to music. Then came the CD players and now they are all gone. We can listen to anything by downloading into our computers. Change is inevitable. It is natural. Everything must change. Nothing remains stagnant!

–Subham–