Humans are exceptionally smart and lazy beings. With that said, we often use our intelligence to decrease our workload and make our lives easier. The majority of people believe that automation refers to giant dumb robots that are very expensive, specialized, and will often require a human in control of it. However, as the age of technology advances, these automations advance as well. In fact, we will soon transition into the age of automations which will be putting a large portion of the economy at risk due to robots replacing humans in the workplace. From construction workers to software engineers, robots will soon be able to stand in for humans in both of those jobs and all those in between. If robots and automations are successful at replacing …show more content…
Travis Kalanick isn’t the only head of a corporation that wants this change in fact, there are many others. This does pose a large issue for our economy though. Unemployment rate during the great depression was approximately 25%. While that number seems huge, unemployment rate could become 50% to 80% if we let robots take over the workplace. These robots will help the rich get richer while letting the poor become unemployed. A majority of mankind will become redundant in the far off future and there are currently no absolute solutions to this issue. Andrew McAfee, the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at MIT Sloan, suggests that guaranteed minimum income is part of the solution. There are others who suggest the idea of money be eliminated completely since we may realistically reach a point where 80% of the population is unemployed. Our only saving grace is that this will be a slow paradigm shift and although limited, we still have the time and opportunity to better prepare our economy for the dawn of a new age. In final conclusion, robots are coming and there is nothing we can do to stop them from completely overtaking our human economy. We need to begin preparing for a future where in most cases, “humans need not