The idea of a robotic workforce and a
world without labor may seem ideal but it comes with a price. As technology has
progressively advanced over the years, many people have been planning for
robots to come take place of humans and do their jobs. By making this actual
reality, many people will find themselves left out of a job and maybe a home.
With that being said, the government would then have to pay those employees
personally in order to compensate for their lost income. That in hand brings a
bigger political aspect in the argument on whether or not to move forward with
this plan of “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”. Another major factor to
consider before turning over our world to a bunch of robots is that with so
many newly unemployed people the government might want to consider the amount
of crime rates increasing and possibly the cases of obesity and other health
issues with so much free time. As we have seen many times before history
continues to repeat itself, so who’s to say that ten to twenty years from now
people won’t have this same conversation again about a new and improved robot
or some other type of advanced technology to take over the old robots. Though
the idea of FALC may sound appealing and meet the eye at first, I think it’s
only temporarily amusing. After a while people are going to become tired of
just sitting around and such a uniform repetitive day a wish to continue
working. Overall, I think it’s totally possible for this to one day be reality
but there still are a few problem areas that should be worked out with
factories that choose to use this route and some major considerations that need
to be made in the government and workers union. Just keep in mind that there
will always be something bigger and better right around the corner and will
again change how people think and operate.
Here many communists would disagree but, as for me, I could not agree more with Ayana. Of course technological advances are beneficial to our society but I too feel there would be several unwanted results if robots were to take over peoples jobs and such. Ayana makes numerous valid points when talking about the issues of a more technological advanced world. Higher percentages of unemployment rate, crime and obesity are only a few of the problems this idea of more technology would create. Yes some readers may challenge my view by insisting that robots taking over would be more beneficial than harmful, but we must compare the pros and cons to see what the better decision overall would be. I also agree with Ayana when she states there will always be something bigger and better. I think it is important that we keep that in mind while technologically advancing our world. Trying to move too fast could end in failure rather than success. As time and generations pass, people will come up with more and more ideas. There is no point in trying to jump so far into the future because sooner or later we will reach those advances. And although Merchant makes many viable points in his article, there will definitely be some kinks that would need to be sorted out in order for his ideas to work out in the most effective way possible.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article and blog post above i came to the conclusion that I agree with Ayana completely. The advancement of technology is rapidly climbing and it is crazy to think that factories will be fully automated within the next couple of decades. which means many jobs will be taken away from people. That is just one of the many problems with a fully automated world. there are a lot of potential problems that could arise from a fully automated world and if we as a world want to have technology do most of our work for us, then we need to take care of those problems first. Such as population increase. With more free time, more people will having more babies and that could lead to over population. Rules about how many children a person can have would have to be implemented into our society. I'm not saying that will happen but there are going to be things that have to be done in order for FALC to work.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything that Ayana brought up in her response to the article. It is true that technology is advancing at a crazy rate. If we were to actually make a robotic work force happen it would take a huge amount of money to keep it updated amd running meaning there would never be a fully automatic workforce in the first place. Even if a fully automated workforce was feasible it would never be a permanent thing. Right off the bat we can all think of things that would only become worse because of it. Obesity, and crime are a couple, these are already problems in our society as it is they would only become worse. And even if we managed to work around these things people would become bored. I cant speak for everyone but most people would become bored and return to work. Which would make something like this temporary as Ayana said. A fully automated workforce sounds nice but isnt really feasible or a permanent fix to our problems.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Anaya about the fact that technology has evolved and is damaging society all over the world. Throughout centuries, technology had improved tremendously for the benefit of people, education and even jobs. Nowadays, society had relied on technology because they have become more as a necessity rather than just a luxury. Now, like Ayana mentioned that the FALC proposal is a very appealing temptation because this would makes a huge difference in society. It will make things easier and get things done faster. However, increasing the technology to having robots around society it can cause a lot of problems too. It can cause the increase of obesity, people being lazy, unemployment, and violence. The robots would actually substitute humans in most all fields for jobs. Overall, the FALC would be very beneficial to the government and factories because it will make the economy increase and make money quicker. On the other hand, it would be very destructive for humans because humans would not have any jobs and probably become poor. I also agree with Anaya about the consequences the government would have to face if they substitute humans with robots on jobs. People will be competitive for the few jobs that will be open for humans, which probably will increase the violence too. The government would have to think very carefully on their decision in building robots and have them work for us. We do not want to become a society like the UK that is working on mostly jobs that pay minimum wages.
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