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  • Essay / Essay on Technology and Human Limitations - 1246

    The word to focus on is "technical", which means that those without a science degree are doomed to be replaced. In the 1950s, the number of jobs exploded due to the demand for physical, unskilled labor to meet the ever-increasing needs for technology. A few decades later, unskilled workers are replaced by the same machine they once assembled; some of these workers choose to work part-time simply so they can keep their jobs. According to the BLS, “advances in technology are making many of the tasks performed by these workers obsolete. The increasing use of software that automates computer operations gives businesses the opportunity to make systems more efficient, but greatly reduces the need for operators” (BLS, p. 602). It seems that our advances in efficiency have also destroyed the lives of workers who have neither the education nor the skills to use this new technology. Technology is not the real cause of job loss; It’s the greed of business owners. They rationalized their options: either have to pay insurance and a salary for a human being – fragile and stressed – or cash in their money for a robot, a mindless machine that doesn't know a break. These business owners, who become dependent on these machines to produce,