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It occurred to me, while walking home through a building site, just how complicated our society has become.
The concept which struck me was this - I work as a tester for a company which produces software which people use to make using a piece of someone else' software easier, the other piece of software in turn mostly being used as the back end to some other kind of application software, which is usually something used in the administration of some actual productive activity. Despite being several meta-layers down from anything which directly relates to actual physical production or processing of Stuff, I make an excellent living doing this.
It strikes me as quite strange and unsettling that our corner of the world has enough overproduction to allow me to do this, especially while some people are still scratching in the dirt for a living, with basically no infrastructure supporting their efforts.
The concept which struck me was this - I work as a tester for a company which produces software which people use to make using a piece of someone else' software easier, the other piece of software in turn mostly being used as the back end to some other kind of application software, which is usually something used in the administration of some actual productive activity. Despite being several meta-layers down from anything which directly relates to actual physical production or processing of Stuff, I make an excellent living doing this.
It strikes me as quite strange and unsettling that our corner of the world has enough overproduction to allow me to do this, especially while some people are still scratching in the dirt for a living, with basically no infrastructure supporting their efforts.
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Date: 2007-03-26 10:37 am (UTC)From:Until recently Britian has had more farmland than it needed, because we've made each acre so productive, however there are plans to have ethanol as a significant component of our fuel in the near future and there isn't actually enough farmland in Britian at the moment to do it. Weirdly the whole 'I refuse to give up my car' thing may force us to give land back to farming.
Or we could just import the stuff.