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Is Technology rising Unemployment rates?

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. Update: Jul 5, 2024 10:55 am
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Yes :-

Redundancy and Automation is continuously replacing human labour.
If any business depends heavily on human labour, it tends to fail as it cannot cope up with the competition from the technologically advanced competitors.
Several kinds of jobs are increasingly getting replaced by technology. As per the reports, there is a significant drop in the typists, weavers, construction workers etc.
Low-skilled workers are the worst hit.

No :-

Technology is not causing unemployment. It is just shifting human labour towards different kinds of jobs.
Though it is taking away some jobs, it is creating more jobs day by day. The net employment opportunities are positive.
With the advancement in technology, people no longer need to do repetitive tasks, and hence more creative companies have born, giving employment to many.
Research by an English based Deloitte Consultancy analysed employment trends for the past 140 years and reported that Technology created more jobs than it took away.
There was a misconception at the time of industrial revolution that machines replaces human labour and hence creates unemployment. Contrary to that, machines caused opening of many industries and more employment opportunities.
The technological advancements are not fully tapped yet. Once technology is utilized to the full extent, more employment opportunities will be created.

Conclusion :-

Technology made our lives easier and is indeed creating newer kinds of jobs. It is inevitable that we should adapt to change and upgrade our skills to mould ourselves into newer types of jobs.

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Afterwords :- What is your stance in this debate? Express your opinions in the comment section below.

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5 Comments

anmol, Jul 27, 2022 @ 7:42 pm Reply

if i have to place a view then i will place somekind of balance view .Look the adaptation is very complex process that alternatives of devlopment need so we basically need to change a whole lot of system in our learning system to overcome the situation.
Meet Patel, Apr 10, 2021 @ 10:41 am Reply

Let us suppose, technological change means we can produce food with fewer workers. Therefore, it is cheaper to produce food and the price of food should fall.

This means that people can spend a smaller percentage of their income on buying food. Therefore, people have more money to spend on other goods and services.

This increased demand for manufactured goods causes higher demand, and therefore there will be a higher demand for workers.

Technological innovation merely changes the types of jobs that occur in the economy. If labour productivity increases, we can enjoy a greater range of goods and services.

In 1920, there were 1.2 million coal miners in the UK. Technological change was a factor in the number employed fall to less than 5,000 in 2012. (decline of UK Coal)
Divya, Jan 28, 2020 @ 2:12 pm Reply

yes
mk, Jan 25, 2020 @ 1:01 am Reply

NO i am not in the fever of this statement Because i think technology can not create unemployment instead of that new technologies provides many jobs to the persons if they have skills to do somethings and development of new technologies may lead to development of different new companies they provides jobs too many
And if companies are not going to born new technologies then they fail in competition
with technologically strong competitors.
Tinku paul, Apr 24, 2018 @ 7:06 am Reply

According to me technology is rising unemployment because of new technologies are introducing in the market and owner they want to take it because manpower is not required very much , very few people can operate the machine though they have to skill .If manpower is not required very much then production costs will be less and machine can give the production more as a result he will be able to compete in the market. He will be able to make more profit.But poor people they are loosing their job, and unemployment is increasing day by day.For example where manpower used to require 100 now new machine has come and 60 people can manage the production as a result production costs is getting less and peoples are getting jobless.