Challenges Of Unemployment In America

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America is a wonderful country and a great place to live, but we are faced with several problems in America today. We face the challenges of unemployment, warfare, industry automation, and a huge national debt, but if we can overcome these challenges we can work towards a brighter future. If we utilize the visions that America’s most powerful young minds and our vision for America.

A problem that we face in America today is unemployment. The reason why unemployment is so prevalent in America today is that America’s industries are moving overseas to find cheaper labor. We could solve this problem by instituting an international minimum wage. If instituted, this would mean around the world everyone who would work would make at least that wage,
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Robots are being used more than they ever have been in factories to do jobs faster and more accurately than any human could ever do. For example, IBM’s computer WATSON, is designed to be a medical doctor and can diagnose patients much more accurately than even the most intelligent doctor can. There are other computers that can compose music, such as the works of Beethoven or Mozart, and not even experts in the field can distinguish a difference between the computer piece and the piece done by the original artist. The sports articles that you read in the newspaper are written by a computer, and that same computer can be told to write in a specific style. For example, you could tell the computer to write the article like Hemingway, and you would think it was written by Hemingway himself. One robot that has been recently developed can watch you do a task and then the robot can do the task exactly like you did over and over again nonstop. Robots have already taken over most blue collar jobs, but don’t think you are safe at your white collar jobs, software robots can run millions of lines of code a minute and don’t ever need a break or a raise. All jobs will be replaced, blue collar, white collar, and professional jobs. These robots are a threat to American jobs and this is a dangerous concept. This is not a problem in the distant future, this is a problem that we will face in the next decade. In order to prevent this problem, we should set in place laws that prevent business owners from going completely automated. If we can prevent total automation, there are still jobs left for people to do, granted, robots will still be highly used in industry, but it will allow for more good production and thus, a greater supply for the demand of goods. A more automized future is not a bad thing, we just

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