The Pros And Cons Of Automation

The Automation Enigma World problems have always faced society. According to a Pew Research study “ISIS, and climate change”(1) were the top two global threats that people were afraid of. The biggest global threat that face humanity is one that has also greatly improved our lives. That threat is Automation. In this paper I’m going to explain why it’s the greatest global threat, how Automation has effected me, solutions that experts have given in the New York Times “Room for Debate”, and what my solution is to the problem.
Automation has been around for hundreds of years so why is it a global threat now? That’s because we are entering a new age of automation unlike anything before. Automation used to be simple machines doing simple tasks. With time, machines have evolved in their roles. Now machines can …show more content…
I believe that we slowly need to change education to be more technological, and that eventually we will need to totally change our economic system from capitalism. Automation is going to evolve faster than we can for the job market. This will eventually make jobs irrelevant to humans. In the future we should have a baseline Universal Basic Income taken from the taxes of the rich, and the companies making robots. The job market will be very tight, and very competitive for a small amount jobs. People will get money from having jobs but it will be seen as more of a hobby than a necessity for survival. Capitalism the way it is now will crash in the future because too many people will be poor, and won’t be able to spend money that will go back into corporations. The only problem with this solution is that the government, and companies will have too much power over people. That’s why starting small businesses should be made easy in the future. Also there needs to be new laws in place to control how much information the government can take from people so machines don’t advance too