Working Ethic Research Paper

Does the production of technologies impact the working ethic and the jobs of future workers?

Introduction Back in the day, before there was any advanced technologies, people working had to go through many back breaking jobs each and every day of their lives. Without technology interfering, this causes many to work harder and focus on the task at hand. Now with technology these days can cause many jobs to be unavailable in the future. These technologies include robots that can substitute for humans in jobs. With robots doing certain jobs, this causes the employment rate to decrease as a result. This would negatively impact the environment and the economy because there would be more unemployed people. As technology advances, there will be

Moshe Vardi, a professor in computational engineering at Rice University claims that he believes that in 2045, the unemployment rate will be at 50% and possibly even higher. “In 30 years, Vardi says, computers will be able to perform almost any job that humans can. One assumes this includes working as a professor of computational engineering. Vardi foresees unemployment as surpassing 50 percent by 2045” (cnet.com). If there comes a time when the world is filled with computers and technology that can compete tasks without humans, I believe that no one will be happy with this outcome. As stated in A World Without Work, “But as manufacturing shifted abroad after World War II, Youngstown steel suffered, and on that gray September afternoon in 1977, Youngstown Sheet and Tube announced the shuttering of its Campbell Works mill. Within five years, the city lost 50,000 jobs and $1.3 billion in manufacturing wages. The effect was so severe that a term was coined to describe the fallout: regional depression.” With technology improving so fast at an alarming rate, there can be no guarantee that many will have jobs in the future. Food and products would become cheaper to produce causing the employees getting fired as a result. This may seem as a benefit, but in the long run, the nation as a whole can become weaker. “ As technology evolves, we find better, faster, cheaper ways to produce more goods and services at lower cost. We become, in a word, more efficient. In response to which, we idle our less productive resources in order to put overwhelming strain on our more productive resources. To use a sports metaphor, we put more players on the bench so that we can completely exhaust our more skilled players. Or, in an engineering metaphor, we distribute a larger load over fewer supports, in order to throw away more supports. This is not a net increase of efficiency.