In Douglas Rushkoff article, “Are Jobs Obsolete?”, he brings up some very interesting points. I believe his main claim is that Americans can survive if all of us do not have jobs. He states that jobs are slowly being replaced by machines or computers and how we do not need to make up other jobs, instead we should enjoy life while we have machines working for us. Right now, people need jobs to survive. To survive we need food and the proper shelter and we provide that through our jobs. But, Rushkoff has a whole different view on this matter. His thought is “accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights.” Rushkoff believes we all have the right to have food and shelter, instead of having to work for it. Rushkoff also mentions in his article that at one point in time jobs did not exist. Instead people traded for the things they wanted or needed. People were not stuck with a job they hate to provide for their families. Rushkoff views want people to go back to those times. Rushkoff states in his article, “The work we do -- the value we create -- is for the rest of what we want: the stuff that makes life fun, meaningful, and purposeful.” He wants people to be able to do things they enjoy and I am sure everyone would agree with him. …show more content…
He shows us great facts on how the U.S. is slowly losing increasingly jobs over the years due to the increase in technology. Rushkoff has a whole different view on the way the world should be ran. Honestly his article is a revelation and has great facts to back it up. I feel as if we had more political people who thought less about money and more about the common good for the people and happiness and they were to look at this article there could be a change. But unfortunately, the U.S. is filled with money hungry people and that is what jobs have turned this world into. But overall Rushkoff has very good points and ideas to make the world a better place and life
In the article, “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much”, Catherine Rampell explains why older generations find millennials to be the laziest generation yet and provides facts that contrast the claim. The generations that came before millennials like Generation X and Baby Boomers have multiple reasons explaining why young people have became less productive over the years. Catherine Rampell provides information regarding how millennials are not as lazy as Generation X has made them out to be.
However, the good is outweighed by the bad in that this article has almost no factual support. Worley seems to be venting her thoughts without any outside factual support. It is difficult to label this article as effective due to the lack of any factual support and evidence to back up her arguments. That is exactly what needs to change in the article. Worley must use more sources for information to back up her points, then the article may be more convincing and worth
The robots are taking over!!! This is the idea that Kevin Kelly stresses and elaborates on in his article “Better than Human:Why Robots Will-and must-Take Our Jobs”. The article focuses on automation in the workplace and how most of the jobs that are currently done by humans will be taken over by robots in the future. Kelly believes that this is inevitable and that it is a positive thing. While I believe that most of our jobs will be taken over in the future, I do not think that Kelly did a great job at trying to prove his point and his argument was mediocre.
A person can choose to work to better their station in life. Through education and job advancement along with desire, people are no longer subjected to a social class they can’t escape. A person’s place in this world can now be set by them when they desire more. There are no longer oppressive laws forbidding the change in status growth. State sponsored educations provided to all citizens give everyone the opportunity to grow and shape their future. Higher education is more accessible than any other period giving people the knowledge and skills to grow into better paying jobs and to find better markets for their skills.
whereas; gender, race, and the times are concerned. I found his article very interesting and appreciated the spark my imagination was given by reading Berger's concepts. I am beginning to look around me differently, with more curiosity, and a desire to know how I am affected socially. Although I believe Berger's article was a bit narrow-minded, I can see where it opened up doors to the mind regarding human perspective and reality.
With the power of wealth and concentration of industry, the tremendous development in machinery, and power to drive machinery; with the improvement of the tools of labor, so that they are wonderfully tremendous machines, and with these all on the one hand; with labor, the workers, performing a given part of the whole product, probably an infinitesimal part, doing the thing a thousand or thousands of times over and over again in a day-labor divided and subdivided and specialized, so that a working man is but a mere cog in the great industrial modern plant; his individuality lost, alienated from the tools of labor; with concentration of wealth, concentration of industry, I wonder whether any of us can imagine what would be the actual condition of the working people of our country to-day without their organizations to protect them.
Nicholas Carr has many strong points in his article. He successfully proves that what he has to say is worthy of his readers time, and that maybe we should all take caution to how much time we spend on the
Robots are important to humans in the workforce, even though, it may not appear so. In Better than Humans: Why Robots Will- and Must- Take Our Jobs, Kelly initially unsettles the reader by noting that our, “job [will be] taken by machines”- if not already taken (Kelly 300). The reason why
Communism, socialism, and capitalism are the three basic forms of economical systems, each evident in the world. Although Karl Marx is portrayed as the father of communism, Marx is able to provide a substantial amount of information about the capitalistic world. In his work, “Capital (1867)”, Marx discusses the nature of commodities, wages, and the relationship between a worker and the capitalist economic system. As a result, Marx portrays workers as human beings who have been exploited in order to maximize production and profit in a capitalistic society. Although Karl Marx wrote “Capital (1867)” over a century ago, Marx’s arguments concerning the various uses of human labor, commodities, and values, have remained relevant in the United States
This paper is briefing of book called “Race against the Machine” written by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. This paper focuses on the impact of technology on the current employment issues. Three explanations of current economic issues that is cyclical, stagnantion and “end of work” is provided (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011). Then the idea of excessive progress in technology making man jobless is presented and to support it various arguments are put forward. Secondly the idea of technology development causing division of labor into high skilled, low skilled, capital, labor, superstars and ordinary labors is presented and explained in detail. Finally remedies for solving these issues are presented and explained. Major takeaways of this paper are mismatch between the productivity and job creation, interlink between Technology improvement and division of labor and importance of education in building stable skilled labors and in the developing a stable society. (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011)
Reaching down and grabbing at these facts and making them work is pretty awesome. Now I think maybe some of his personal beliefs are showing a negative light on some areas, but at least he is putting light on the problem. This book does a good job of showing the beginnings of the wealth gap that is today. I don’t think Professor Galbraith had any idea that these theories would stand today. One has to approve the remarkable intelligence the man has, to point out these different topics in order to show a greater problem.
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man” (Hubbard 151). Elbert Hubbard, an American writer and the founder of Roycroft Artisan community, predicted the future with his epigram. His maxim would resonate for years to come and would be seen in the future job markets. For thousands of years, technology has fundamentally changed the way we live and interact with our environment. It has brought us from the Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution. It has taken us from the creation of the computer to the landing on the moon. Not only has technology affected the old, but also it has affected the youth. For the old and aged, modern technological innovations have brought about longer lives through medicine and other health care. People today are able to live longer, live stronger, and live happier. As for the youth and growing generations, technology has also affected them in various ways. From entertainment to education, technology has designed a generation that could never have been before imagined. But technology has not stopped there; it also has affected their future. From what careers they will pursue to how much they will earn, technology will play a big role. With the rise of new machines and equipment, thousands of jobs will be created that will range from ones that involve handling the machinery to ones that cannot be done by machinery. However on the other hand, new technology also takes away thousands of other jobs from society. As businesses look for ways to maker bigger profits, they will start replacing workers with machinery that could do the job faster and better. While the amount of unemployed may increase due to the advancement of technology, there will also b...
Since the year 2000 America has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs; 2.2 million of those jobs were lost after 2008 showing a steep decline in the sector that is theorized to decline even faster with more trade agreements being negotiated. Big businesses are essentially relying on America to be a nation of consumers and sustaining an entity of such large proportions without creating anything is un-executable. If businesses just sold products and made nothing the bulk of the money would always go to the nation of makers since the profit for selling is lower than creating. The middle class has always been largely made up of blue collar workers but while they’re being destroyed the white collar sector is not safe. During the 2000’s, a substantial influx of tech jobs being outsourced to India and China was seen. Customer Service Call Centers are being placed in India along with in-house tech assistance departments. White collar jobs previously considered to be safe are being sent offshore including accounting, stockbrokers, data entry, etc. Once considered the holy grail of jobs that canno...
A 2014 Oxford study found that the number of U.S. workers shifting into new industries has been strikingly small: In 2010, only 0.5 percent of the labor force was employed in industries that did not exist in 2000. The discussion about humans, machines and work tends to be a discussion about some undetermined point in the far future. But it is time to face reality. The future is now. (UPI Top
Nevertheless, many fears to technological advancement have been expressed similarly to that of their predecessors by the ‘Neo-Luddites’ of today (Stewart 1996, p.13). A prime advocate, author of The End of Work and US economist, Jeremy Rifkin asserts that technology is a ‘revolution’ which has taken over the world, posing a significant restructuring of the workforce and quality of life (Wyndham 1997, p.