TIN CANS

Tin Cans is an electronic music, techno inspired adventure into the land of automation, or at least partly inspired by this and obviously automated in terms of eurorack functionality where possible.
The idea behind this is 'we can make robot too', the original title, in that we need a strategy for self defence since we are likely to come under increasing attack from the robots the corporations make to enrich themselves and not society.

Interestingly, thinking of a related topic, after watching an interview with Mo Gawdat on the DOAC channel, he mentions that Sam Altman has a duty to his shareholders for OpenAI that overrides his duty to society. In effect this hints that the buck stops with shareholders and at the need for them to recognise their own duty to society.

This might form itself as a contract, where at the bare minimum additional contributions to society could be recovered from shareholders in situations where, for example, a million employees are effectively replaced by robots at a given company.

It is the CEOs duty to make those "process improvements" for the benefit of the company and ultimately the shareholders, however this harms society, as now society has to pick up some of the tab for those 1 million layoffs. As such, taken as a percentage of share holdings, the shareholders need to pick up some of the tab for those million employees needing to find other jobs, or worst case need government support.

Another alternative would be for the company to endow all those employees who were replaced by automation with a "worthwhile" chunk of the shares - since ultimately it was their hard work that gave the shares any value at all. This way maybe the employees could also benefit from those process improvements in the future.

The video for this music is just a nice visual backdrop which hopefully enhances the atmospherical experience for the viewer. Actually the effects have a similarity to the Yin Yang symbol and I guess all the above is about taking care to mix some Yin with the Yang, etc., etc., but we also need to consider that others are not making their decisions based on this. How we deal with that I don't know, hence the need for a strategy now before it's too late. Government doesn't appear to have the bandwidth for that.

Music created with Eurorack using sound sources from 2HP, Cosmotronic, Erica Synths and HexInverter (original BD9).