Negatives Of Robotics

I believe that robotics will have an enormous negative impact on the economy overall. As technology advances robots will become more common as they will have the ability to do more complex jobs at a cheaper price. From one perspective, it may be seen as something positive for the economy in that they will have to allocate less money and resources to a robot compared to a human. But, one component of the economy cannot be improved without another component being effected. When saying that; I am referring to those human who will be left jobless once the robots are brought into their workplace as it occurred at a company called Foxconn (Magee, 2011).

As robots are introduced into the workplace, workers are at the same time laid off. Companies find that the human workers no longer needing to work any longer leading to them having to find other jobs. In todays economy, it has been found to be difficult to obtain a job, however, in other countries’ factory workers were replaced by robots and those workers cannot survive without a job for a few days due to extremely low pay. In the case study it did, however, state that jobs will remain available for humans, but those jobs most of the time, require a lot of experience and occasionally a college degree. Humans on the

Yes, there may be government funded public assistance programs. With the transition to a robotic economy those programs will be overwhelmed with the abundant amount of people that need assistance. These programs will eventually have money issues themselves as we have issues today, leaving some with getting little to no assistance. As exhibited in the finical crisis, people of middle and lower class took the hardest hit and they continued to take more cuts. There was an it just has to be dealt with mentality being exerted during that period, which I feel will happen when the transition