Unemployment In The 21st Century

The 21st century is facing a remarkable increase in unemployment rate as millions of workers have been permanently eliminated from the economic process and many job offers have become extinct. Brynjolfsson (2011) presented the unfortunate catastrophe about the American Associations after the Great Recession between May 2007 and October 2009. In fact, companies didn’t resume employing, they hired new machines. After the sharp decline in economic activity during the late 2000s, the quality of the work field didn’t improve. As a result, new entrants into the workforce found themselves without jobs. As Weidel (2015) stated, the employees with a potential to be replaced by “labor-saving technology” no longer find opportunities as machines substituted them. As an example, computer threw out factory workers, service representatives and many more (p. 6). This loss of jobs is caused by some sort of technological change, which indeed promotes technological unemployment. Just as horses employed as prime means of transport were gradually made obsolete by the automobile, humans ' jobs are also affected …show more content…
It would allow individuals to easily refuse to enter or leave a job position that violates their self-government or that involves unsafe, unhealthy, or demeaning conditions. They no longer feel forced to work in an unpleasant job, thus they would seek the most adequate position depending on their preferences or skills. In contrast, it will enrich people’s engagement in voluntary work such as to learn to surf, to write, to paint, to devote their time to their families as mandatory work kept them away from the true meaning of life. A basic income would open up many dream-like opportunities to low and middle class people, such as seeking a higher education, running a business, practicing arts and many more but most importantly it would embrace voluntary work (Pateman, 2004, p.