A World Without Work By Derek Thompson

Americans. American work-life has evolved drastically over the years. Certain jobs are being replaced by drones and robots, leaving many Americans unemployed. It has caused a slight shift in how we work. However, the continuation of work is still alive. In the article “A World Without Work,” (2015) the author Derek Thompson expresses how people are losing their jobs. Nevertheless, they’re using their hobbies and talents to generate money. Someone might sell their poetry and written work when they have

beings work. To work is to "be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a purpose or result." (New Oxford American Dictionary) Thus, some people work by holding full time jobs where they perform a task in order to get payed, while others exert their energy crafting or caring for others, and yet others devote themselves to learning. Because work is such an integral part of the American culture, it is hard to imagine life without it. However, this is exactly what Derek Thompson does

In this article “A World Without Work” written by Derek Thompson, published by The Atlantic on July/August 2015. He begins with a disastrous story about a town in Ohio where all jobs were lost. Youngstown prospered before World War two struck, soon there after the whole town lost 50,000 jobs. Mental-health hospitals were built as well as four prisons due to the fact no one had jobs. Now the town is representation of what could happen when all jobs are lost, and Derek uses this illustration to

necessity for many people in today’s society. Headphones allow a person to listen to music without disturbing others; therefore people are listening to music all day while they eat, sleep, or work. In Derek Thompson’s essay, “How Headphones Changed the World”, Thompson addresses the problem of why workers use headphones even if studies have shown that it interferes with their productivity levels. Thompson effectively uses precise language and organizes his essay in a way that shows a breakdown of

workers must be ready to look for alternative ways to work once being replaced by machines. Derek Thompson describes the future of American jobs as technology continues to swarm the workforce. In the article "A World Without Works," Thompson uses the story of Youngstown, Ohio, a town supplied with employment from the steel mills, to provide a metaphor of the consequences of mass unemployment. As steel production moved abroad following World War 2, Youngstown lost over 50,000 jobs. The effects left

to more peaceful foreign relations through commerce, the domestic fear of losing jobs and motivation in the workforce due to outsourcing can be seen as far back as Richard Nixon’s Labor Day address in 1971 where President Nixon states that going to work and energizing the American workforce will achieve “a new prosperity in a full

employment in the workforce. If the unemployment rate were to decrease, it would bring upon a mass of societal complications including sociological issues, a gap between societal classes, and inferior choices that come with excess leisure time. A loss of work due to technological advances create a mass of sociological issues to society. In “The Mental Health Consequences of Unemployment” Rebbeca Rosen, senior editor of the Atlantic, reports that citizens who have been unemployed for six months or longer

production, distribution, and exchange should be regulated by the community as a whole. Is this the way a country should be governed or is it a recipe for disaster? Have these types of principles come to help us or is it just a noble idea that simple works on paper but not in real terms? Our right as humans that live on this earth, have to step up and decide if it should be stopped or pushed to victory. There are many respectable functions that come out of a socialist system. Nationalizing important

“More than 30 percent americans cite technology as the reason they are out of work, and in 2013, Oxford researchers predicted machines could take 47 percent of U.S. jobs over the next 20 years.” Developing innovations like modern robots, manmade brainpower, and machine learning are progressing at a fast pace, but yet people haven't thought about regarding their effect on work and open arrangement. While technology is improving and becoming more useful and sufficient for good services, it is also

almost every aspect of their life. with one notable problem being that decisions influenced by instant gratification seem to be leading to higher rates of unemployment seen with machines threatening to replace laborers (Derek Thompson). Former president Nixon goes into claim how work ethic is what allows us to be a industrial nation and is what allowed us to change from a poor nation to a powerful one over the course of two centuries" (Address to the Nation on Labor Day,1). with this claim, it is pivotal