Prospects of a Jobless Future
Prospects of a Jobless Future
This article describes what jobs means to the economy and the society. The article explains how the jobs influence the economy and the society and how people lose their jobs to technology driven jobs.
The article states that technology provides satisfying jobs for only a few people. It describes how blue-collar workers lose their jobs because of automation, the people who lose their jobs to the technology they developed. Also what Aronowitz said “But there’s no way we can see that other sectors will open up and produce an equal number of jobs compared to those being destroyed.”
The flaw I found in this article was the elimination of support staff in universities. Professors have teaching assistants who help them with teaching. Also the fact about technology taking over the jobs of people who developed them, as I think is a flaw. This is because once that technology develops a fault, the people who developed the technology are needed to fix it. Therefore the people who created the jobs cannot be just eliminated from their jobs.
I agree with the fact that a lot of jobs are going to be eliminated because of the development of technology that can do the work better at a lesser cost. People who try to get a job in another field will find it difficult to work in another field because jobs are not created at the rate of them being destroyed.