Structural unemployment

human mind is eventually going to be taken over by technology, as humans have become more reliant on machinery and technology and have refused to grow the human intellect given to us. There can also be a school of thought that would assume that unemployment would be on the rise say if technological changes are still adopted in the years to come. However the exact opposite has happened. Technology has brought about machinery, which can work faster up to 10 times more than that of a regular…

My personal experience with community service is very limited. Through my church group and my school we would serve meals at the homeless shelter various times during the year. We would be at the shelter for increments of five hours at a time. Two hours were allotted to prepare parts of the meal, another two were used for serving food, and the last hour was used for cleaning up the kitchen and dining area. The only other community service I have done was through my high school Science Club; we…

the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the most devastating stock market crash in American history, the vast majority of the decade was crippled by a financial ruin called the Great Depression that had a traumatic impact worldwide, leading to widespread unemployment and poverty. In response, authoritarian regimes emerged in several countries in Europe, specifically the Nazi Party in Germany. Weaker states such as China and Poland were invaded by expansionist world powers, leading to the outbreak of the…

The Advancement of Technology Throughout the books Feed by M. T. Anderson, and The Shallows By Nicholas Carr, it shows how the world is quickly advancing through technology, striving to become a better, and more efficient world. One problem that comes with this advanced tech we create, is the limit of who can afford and have access to our technology. People who are not capable of getting their hands on our improved devices fall behind the rest of the world, and can not advance with us. This…

The Great Depression not only affected the United States of America as a whole, but it also affected Mississippi specifically. The New Deal was a way to get America out of the Depression and it was World War II that ended The Great Depression in Mississippi (Fleeger Lecture). The state went through a lot between the 1920s and the 1940s. The New Deal and World War II significantly altered life in Mississippi, leaving life in Mississippi to be changed forever. On October 29, 1929 the stock…

Minimum wage is the lowest hourly wage that a state is legally required to pay a worker. Over the past fifty years, the minimum wage has risen from $1.00 to $7.25. Minimum wage gives some employees an opportunity to maintain an income and support themselves. There are many minimum wage jobs, some being in the fast food industry or restaurants in general. There are also minimum wage jobs that don’t have anything to do with food, such as working at a front desk on college campus or even being a…

People on welfare should be required to be drug tested in order to receive money from our government. Welfare receivers could be using the money for unintended reasons. Such as drugs, and not their personal care. They could also not care about the people, a.k.a. the tax payers, which are the ones providing the money for them. Welfare receivers could be using their unearned money in ways they government had not intended. People who receive welfare could be manipulating the government and using…

The “The Gangster as Tragic Hero” (1962) and the episode off of Breaking Bad (2008-2013) are based on characters who are from the middle-class that are facing falling wages due to the Great Recession and use violence to help them survive. As time passes, they begin to notice that all their hard work isn’t paying off and their belief in the American Dream is challenged. Walter White is a white male character from Breaking Bad that was a chemistry teacher and has come face to face with cancer. He…

The so called “Buy Nothing Day” is a day against the concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy. It is not. Civilians believe that because they possess more or they own the latest devices turns them into a “better individual”, that is complete gibberish. Society cannot forget about the tragedy that occurred in the 1930’s, the Great Depression, due to overconsumption . Consequently, “Buy Nothing Day” , a single day, was designed for people to realize the…

By 1929, Hitler had won over 40 percent of the vote and became the largest party in the German parliament. After America’s stock market crash in 1929, multiple countries who were dependent on the United States were looking to strengthen themselves economically, politically and socially. Germany, in particular suffered from this and was desperate for a leader who could bring back Germany into power. Adolf Hitler had seen an opportunity to propagandize the society by promising jobs, abolish the…