The town where AI starts going to Hello Work
*Hello Work = Japanese job support organization
A folk singer named Ikuzo Yoshi once sang a song about his rural hometown in Japan
"Ah, no TV, no radio, not many cars running... Ah, I hate a village like this!"
I suddenly think about the town I live in now... "This town is pretty cool"
There are no convenience stores here like there were in Japan. Convenience stores, as the name suggests, are convenient shops. I remember there were them everywhere. If you go to Tokyo, there are as many stores as there are people in Tokyo (lie). You can do almost anything you need for daily life there. ATMs, alcohol, cigarettes, daily necessities, food, all sold 24 hours a day. Finished products are always on display, and there's no time to worry about who made it, how, or where. I'm reminded again how amazing the development of distribution really is. Supplying the same things in the same quantities at the same time.
Now, in the town where I live, during lunchtime, everyone goes home to eat lunch at home. On Sunday mornings, most shops are closed. The town itself goes into a relaxed mode. Shutters are closed at noon, and nobody is around. Even during normal business hours, it's common to go to a shop and find it closed.
The town is alive. It breathes, rests, comes again, breathes, and lives. Together with people. The town is not one-dimensional. There is such a thing as its rhythm.
The people here work using their heads and hands. There are fields looking up at volcanoes, wineyards overlooking the sea, food right there, chefs, the sound of building houses, and voices calling out to each other in loud voices. There is such a town... There are things and qualities everywhere that you can only get there. Everyone lives by devoting their hearts to unique items chosen according to their own tastes. There are no convenient stores like the ones in Tokyo, but instead, people here have the "ability to improvise." Well, everyone talks to each other a lot (laughs)
In the seams of this fabric woven by people, I don't see any room for the AI that people are talking about lately. That's how I feel, and I'm starting to feel hope and joy for the future
"Don't need convenience stores, don't need AI, I love a town like this! ♫"
PS. It makes me want to draw. I want to create more.
