The Box

 2020/12/20.  The Box

I am reading the book “The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.”.

Shifting Low productive works to be higher has a lot of stories.

This shifting is happening in lots places.

In Japan, for example, restaurants install tablet devices instead of hiring waiters.

I wrote below formula in post blog post.

P = ( S - C ) / T

P: Productivity

S: Sale

C: Cost

T: Time

If we want to improve productivity, we reduce cost and/or time.

Cost includes labor costs.

Labor cost is generally proportional to working time.

New technology makes less working time possible.

Then labors lose incomes.

This shifting is like how knowledge is treated in our brains.

If we know something, it is difficult to act as not knowing it.

This shifting is irreversible.

I think that this shifting is happening to everybody.

For example, I am learning Python on Udemy (Online Course).

This means I don’t need to go to school for it.

Reducing my time and cost for learning Python is done by online course.

I imagine that how others do when they want to learn Python.

Do they learn Python as same as I am learning?

I feel that most adult Japanese can’t do it.

Because they can’t learn something new with English. 

Learning with English sounds difficult for most Japanese.

This is real.

The problem is shifting low productive works to be higher happens in Japan slowly or not.

Corona virus makes the shifting faster.

Corona virus reveals the difference between self-learning person and others.

The difference will be bigger and it is still invisible to others now.

Corona virus makes good chances to self-learning person.