BLOG #5 Technology in the workforce!

     Technology is a great thing, but sometimes too much of a good thing can become a bad thing and in this case a life changing bad thing!  Some jobs that technology could potentially take over are teachers; they could have a computer talk to students therefore, taking away thousands of jobs.  Also, factory workers, because technology would be made, so that the human labor would not be necessary anymore.  This would be a tragedy in my opinion, because then people would miss out on human interaction and would then be learning from a more stagnant perspective.  Along, with our country as a whole would no longer be able to prosper as it once did.  As technology gets more advanced there has been given great predictions that about 50% of the work force will be taken out.  If this happens there will be great distress on our economy.  To have a stable and well running economy you need the number of producers and the goods they make to match up the amount of consumers and the amount of goods they can buy.  If fifty percent of our current work force is put out of jobs they will no longer be able to contribute to our economy.  Therefore we will see a great amount of surplus in almost every good.  Also, it could affect children detrimentally.  The reasoning behind this is that if children’s parents can’t afford food, shelter, school supplies, after school sports, ect. how will that effect the children psychologically?  Also, then the government will be expected to feed those families, because the amount of people on welfare in America will go up exponentially!  That will have a huge effect therefore, leading into even more problems.  The technology movement is great, but we need to find a way to have technology and people be able to work together and not compete for the same job!