“What about the other perspectives?” talks about mainly
having an open-mind and always acknowledging every other counter-argument that
you encounter. Which is important to know and do with the article, “Fully
automated luxury communism.” Having read through the article and thought about
it, the idea of replacing labor done by humans by machinery and technology
still seems a bit wicked to me. Whether you are in favor of the ideology of
communism, or in favor of having machines run a part of the productivity labor
for a higher efficiency and probably a better profit or not, the fact is that
it will leave a lot of people without jobs. The article states that “35% of
jobs in the UK are “at risk” of being automated.” That is approximately a third
of the whole available jobs. Finding a job may take you months or even a year
nowadays, now imagine how difficult it would be if all the jobs available be
reduced to approximately forty percent. Taking away the opportunity for people
to have a job and being able to provide for their family for machines is
immoral. We are trying to reduce the unemployment rate not increase it. Increasing the automated workforce will only
lead us to almost complete dependency on machinery and technology, abolishing almost
all of our drive to thrive manually.
I do agree with you on the fact that if we were to have machines run the world we live in, there would hardly be any jobs left for us humans. On the other hand, I disagree with the fact that machines will take over human jobs because machines simply cannot do all that a human can do. Us as citizens of this world we live in have to opportunity to make the world a better place, and I do not believe that any machine or robot can do that. But also, I feel like some day machines may be the only option we have. But with machines, comes with humans who must conduct maintenance on these machines because who else would? Although machines might become the next era of the general work force, we as humans must do everything we can right now to make sure that we have future careers and that the future generations to come always have a career. No matter which way you look at it, humans will always be necessary for day-to-day work in the world. Although machines would be able to do a lot that humans already do, there are just some jobs that machines would not be able to do.
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