Race Against the Machine

Executive summary In this article, I will outline the book "Essentials for Machine" written by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. This article will focus on the impact of technology on current employment issues. Three interpretations of current economic problems are cyclical, stagnant, and "the end of work" (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011). Then he proposed the idea that technology would create excessive unemployment and advocated various arguments to support it. Secondly, it introduces and explains the concept of technology development in detail. And it divides the division of labor into high skill, low skill, capital, labor, super star and normal labor.

This is not a competition with the machine. If we compete with them, we will lose. This is competition with machinery. Depending on how you use the robot, you will be paid in the future. It will be a machine where 90 percent of colleagues can not be seen. Without them, most of the work you do is impossible. There is an ambiguous boundary between what you are doing and what you are doing. Things like chores are handed over to the robot by an accountant so you may not think that it is a job anymore.

Since Brynjolfsson and McAfee's innovative e-book "Race Against The Machine", the meme that robots occupy our work is almost obsessive. From game show to supercomputer, medical school, software robot for article creation in factory, cheap joint robot, our limited human ability seems to be losing the competition. Of course, the concept of automating employment reduction is not new. Its history goes back to the 19th century Luddite movement. However, so far, technology unemployment has not yet been realized. In fact, the labor force has doubled since 1970, but since then the labor participation rate has risen by more than 10%.

The contradiction between "Innovation pessimism" and "conflicting machine" reflects the contradiction of capitalism itself: the tendency of private ownership, productivity exceeds the market, the extreme production plan within the company is Along with chaos. . At the same time, too much, too few innovation paradoxes simply represent the capitalist dialectic - the law based on the "reasonable" pursuit of profit from individual capitalist, which in turn will be a completely irrational result be connected. The entire capitalist class

Meanwhile, we see "competition with machinery" where workers face the threat of information technology and "technical unemployment" through automation. Research predicts that nearly half of the work in the advanced capitalist world will be eliminated by 2034 due to automation including many white collar work such as accountants and real estate agents. In the process, many young people with high unemployment rate and highly educated are created and young people can not find a job, so we need to find a safe and unstable job.