Multi Genre Project 6

Tabloid Article

Dennis Parks

4-30-14

Machines… Are They Increasing Unemployment? Or Nah?

Jobs in the U.S. have been lost this year, why is that? Expert John Clint says machines that are being placed in jobs are making unemployment higher than before. Machines seem to run faster than humans and gets the job done in seconds, but how is this helping the people who losing these jobs to technology. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and software automation applications will increasingly enable computers to do jobs that require significant training and education. College graduates who take "knowledge worker" jobs will find themselves threatened not only by low-wage offshore competitors but also by machines and software algorithms that can perform sophisticated analysis and decision making.

Manufacturing workers who work at the jobs that build things may be threatened the most because mostly all manufacturing jobs have machines that do most of the work. Workers may have to push themselves to the limit to compete with technology but may fail in the process. As unemployment rises and wages fall, consumer spending will likely fall because of unemployment which will have affect on most of the companies because of money that isn’t coming in. How can we survive this situation? How is technology helping unemployment? As technology rises in jobs, workers may find themselves in the bleak of unemployment.

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