Destroying Jobs

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Machines Make Over A question everyone is thinking about is, will we even need humans in the future? Our biggest problem we are facing is how to keep jobs once technology advances. Technology and machines are advancing at an alarming rate, and if we don’t prepare well machines can end up wiping out whole industries and putting millions of people in the unemployment line. People are trying to find solutions to try and keep the jobs they have once robots are able to do them. In the past, technology has shown to take over many jobs, but we need to ask ourselves, are those the jobs we necessarily want? How technology has been taking our jobs is discussed in the article “How Technology is Destroying Jobs: Automation is reducing the need for …show more content…

In 1900, 41 percent of Americans worked in agriculture; by 2000, it was only 2 percent.” This illustrates how technology has taken over industries of business and has left little to no workers. In addition, Rotman explains how technology is helping the economy grow but in doing so it has taken many jobs by stating “For years after World War II, the two lines closely tracked each other, with increases in jobs corresponding to increases in productivity. The pattern is clear: as businesses generated more value from their workers, the country as a whole became richer, which fueled more economic activity and created even more jobs. Then, beginning in 2000, the lines diverge; productivity continues to rise robustly, but employment suddenly wilts. By 2011, a significant gap appears between the two lines, showing economic growth with no parallel increase in job creation. Brynjolfsson and McAfee call it the “great decoupling.” And Brynjolfsson says he is confident that technology is behind both the healthy growth in …show more content…

In a sense, they’ve been right.” By Rebbeca J. Rosen from The Atlantic, written on September 3, 2015 is all about how advanced technology has been taking our jobs and changing they types of jobs available. For example, Rosen states “As Mokyr, Vickers, and Ziebarth describe, the concerns about the ways that technology was reshaping work were often not so much about the quantity of work available (with shortages leading to unemployment) but about the quality of that work—whether it was safe, whether it afforded workers sufficient autonomy, and whether it enabled them to have good lives.” This shows how the type of jobs available have changed and the new jobs were not as beneficial as the old jobs. To add on, Rosen also said, “Perhaps the biggest change, one that Mokyr, Vickers, and Ziebarth highlight, is the growth in so-called “nonemployer business,” which sometimes goes by the buzzier (and misleading) term “sharing economy,” and refers, in part, to gigs coordinated online via apps such as Uber, AirBnB, or Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Other shifts include the greater “flexibility” many employees throughout the economy have with regard to where they work and their hours (which can mean unpredictable schedules based on demand and, as a result, unpredictable wages), and a recent doubling of the percentage of workers who primarily

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