It's a Chinese restaurant, but I don't eat crayfish and just keep peeling them.
What are you doing?
A person who only peels the crayfish skins instead.
This errand industry is booming these days.
Catching cockroaches, watering flowerpots, nailing, disposing of food waste, sorting, and even trivial things.
No matter how reluctant to lift your hand, you might say that you are too lazy, but it is a thing of the past that diligence is the only virtue.
In a world where laziness is money, the 'lazy economy' is attracting attention.
In the beginning, it was just laziness that really didn't want to move.
Living busy in an urbanized world, I had to borrow someone else's hand for convenience, and as a result, delivery and agency services grew first.
In China, where labor costs are cheap, it is called 'lazy man' in Chinese and 'lanren economy', and in the West, it is known as LAZY ECONOMY.
You'll remember this ad copy a few years ago, 'I don't do anything, but I don't want to do it more violently'.
Even in Korea, as the middle class grows and wants to save time and buy convenience by spending money, technology has developed, so this copy has become a reality.
Smart devices such as robot vacuum cleaners, food cookers, and dishwashers have surged.
The lazy economy has reached its heyday due to the COVID-19 crisis.
In the past two years, when quarantine and telecommuting were routine, it was possible to live a daily life without even going out.
The types of errands were so subdivided that even a service to buy a corona diagnosis kit appeared.
As non-face-to-face and zip locks have become common, the C2C platform economy that connects consumers to individual demand, that is, consumers through innovative technologies such as big data, AI, and 5G, has boomed.
It is the wise idler who saves effort and spends time in my life, not mere cynicalism, which became the driving force for innovation.
Companies cannot stand still in the exponentially growing market, everyone is jumping in.
The food delivery market, which was about 9 trillion won two years ago, has exploded to a whopping 25 trillion won, making it difficult to find early morning delivery, same-day delivery, and bullet delivery riders.
Hotels with high standards and popular restaurants with decades of tradition are eager to develop home-cooked meals, and various ready-made foods are plentiful. , flowers have evolved into a variety of personalized services.
Now, the lazy economy of the future is likely to be a direction with little human input, where robots are commonplace, self-driving cars drive the roads, and drones deliver goods to the front yard.
As a result, there are concerns.
Advanced automation is displacing human jobs, leaving humans focused on simplified agency tasks.
Polarization is bound to intensify.
As the platform grows in size, the monopoly grows, and this side effect cannot be ignored.
As can be seen from the recent conflict over the sharp increase in delivery costs, the controversy over who deserves how much profit is due to the increase in intermediate transaction costs has not yet been found a clear solution.
In the end, it will act as a cost increase factor for consumers, further stimulating the already high price burden.
Now that the corona pandemic, where reasonable laziness was tolerated, has passed and the endemic is approaching, the laziness economy that has expanded indefinitely using the corona as an opportunity may also come to a stagnation.
I wonder how to upgrade human life over the side effects that need to be overcome.
(Planning: Ho-Gun Lee, Composition: Hee-Sook Shin, Video coverage: Won-Bae Kim, Hyun-Cheol Park, Video editing: Jun-Hee Kim, CG: Soo-Hyun Shim and So-Hee Ban)