Satire For Human Workers By Sheelah Kolhatkar

Robots can effect employment in a negative way,as said by the author Kelly “It may be hard to believe… 70 percent of today’s occupation will likewise be replaced by automation...even you will have your job taken away by machines”(Kelly Page.300), this quote comes to show the negative aspect of robots taking over the world in the near

These days, all everyone can think of is the latest gadgets and gizmos. Who has the best iPhone, tablet or Android. In society today people are considered outcasts if they have last year’s tech. In the short story “The Veldt”, Ray Bradbury uses satire to demonstrate that technology can be destructive if it’s not controlled.

In an age where technology is so advanced that robots replace humans in the workplace, it is no surprise that increasingly fewer Americans are considered full-time employees. While proponents of advancement argue that technology adds a high level job for every low level job it takes away, low class manufacturing jobs will not be the only newly-automated jobs. Due to rapid advancement, computers are projected to be one thousand times more powerful in the 2030s than computers today (McChesney and Nichols, 2016, 246). With these improvements, no human’s job is safe.

The media creates television shows that appear to be reality however they are not and when looked at, it is easy to see. I will be discussing the relationships between reality and reality TV, satire, and documentary.

TICK… TICK… TICK... Okay don’t look at the clock for 10 minutes. God, what even are those symbols on the board? GODDDDD, this is so boring. Just twirl your pencil and look at the board. Get pumped for the U.S. open this weekend. You ready to get out there and try that cork 7 that you’ve been working on for almost two months? That perfectly cut halfpipe is probably just sitting there right now with no one on it. Maybe... the halfpipe for this contest will be as good as the one a couple years ago. Remember, your first real competition! Who was the coach that year? Oh yeah, it was Evan. Hahaha that comp was awesome! As my legs start tingling, my heart pounds against my ribs like the bass drum at a rock concert, and a sonorous voice at a distance blasts over the speakers surrounding the icy giant glaring back at me: “Dropping into the pipe next is George Mckeever-Parkes

How rude do you think some people can be? In the book Wonder, by R.J Palacio there is a boy named Julian and he is one of the meanest boys in the whole 5th grade. Julian is so mean to others, that on the first day of school for a boy named August, Julian bullied him. It was August’s first day of school ever because he was homeschooled by his mom. He has a facial deformity and does not want other people to make fun of him and all Julian is trying to do is make August want to go back to being home schooled.

Many current politicians such as President Trump have stated that they are going to revive the middle class by bringing jobs back into our economy that have been shipped off overseas. However, the problem with jobs has not been from shipping them overseas. Paul Wiseman, writer for The Associated Press, shows proof of this by stating, “A study at Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research last year found that trade accounted for just 13 percent of America’s lost factory jobs. The vast majority of the lost jobs — 88 percent — were taken by robots and other homegrown factors that reduce factories’ need for human labor” (“Automation” 21). Many companies such as Amazon are prime examples of the automation of factory jobs. Amazon has many factory jobs that require long and hard work in some questionable working conditions. The New York Times reports, “that white-collar workers at Amazon are also subjected to a grueling culture consisting of 24-hour mandated performance, ritual abuse by bosses, and the annual arbitrary culling of employees, referred to as ‘purposeful Darwinism’ in company dialect” (qtd. in Means 21). Amazon did fix the worker problem; but, not by changing job conditions or managers. Instead, they fire the workers and simply replace them with Kiva robots that would do the job complaint free (Means 21).

Do we want a country run by people who are oblivious to anything involving civics and politics? What if our government corrupts due to the fact nobody knows how to run a country? You might be very shocked to find out that nearly 60% of the 20-year-olds in our nation do not vote at all. But the worst part is that the ones who do vote, they vote based solely on the candidate’s personality and how the media views them. We can not let this happen, we can not let this generation run our country into the ground. But we are that generation, the ones who have no clue what politics really are about and we are the ones who only care about a candidate if they are what everyone else cares about. If we don’t learn about this soon, what will happen to our government? And that gave me a thought… “Why aren’t we teaching this sooner?”. Our government relies on the kids and this generation to take over the government someday, so how are we going to do that if we aren’t getting taught?

Today in the workplace we see people that don’t always hold up their end of their job. There are people that tend to have to pick up the end of other people's job and I can tell you right now how much they love to do this. It’s not very common to find a good worker these days because the parenting has changed to please the others around you rather than to help teach the child disciplined.

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While that dystopian future may seem rather extreme, a more modest proposal would follow that robots may not be eating babies, but they uncertainly threaten the value of our time within a workplace. Machines, to many companies, are a

Over time our lives seem to have become more and more integrated with our technology. Some may say that this is a very bad thing because this change may result in the loss of jobs for millions of people. Jobs such as, cashiers, bankers, legal assistants, and maybe even taxi drivers. The future may appear bleak at first, but the truth of the matter is that robots taking over our simple and automatable jobs just mean that our jobs can evolve with the technology. A very similar thing happened during the industrial revolution when technologies were developed that massively increased the efficiency and yield of farming. This in turn led to a vast increase of food in the country which led to a lesser need for everyone to be a farmer. With a massive amount of food, former farm workers, and advanced technology, a business of mass production and manufacturing began. The loss of jobs due to technology led to a

Obtained by the outcomes from corrective action, the genre of satire advocates for the preservation of moral principles, the need to reform, and the attempt to instigate change. Satire has become a powerful art form intended to improve humanity by pointing out the deficiencies in certain human behaviors and the corruptions of modern society. Satire also has the competence to protect its creator from accountability for criticism, because it is covertly implied rather than openly stated; thus, it becomes a powerful tool for people in repressive political and social periods. With its intentions to ridicule those vices, satire has progressively made its way into literature, television, the internet, comics and cartoons. Modern satire as portrayed in the cartoon South Park has transformed into a powerful satirical work, in which four young boys propose to expose the ugly truth, meanwhile the adults render to the senselessness of society. Alternatively, Swift effectively uses each experience in Gulliver’s Travels to satirize a vast of issues which were once significantly influential in the seventeenth and eighteenth century England, including government, human pride, religion, and philosophy. Modern society struggles to obtain the good of civilization which is constantly being threatened by man's immorality, causing satirist to unmask those vices for the society’s good. While knowledge is constantly ridiculed, satire is the hindrance of immoral issues, attempting to condemn the

“Drones are trackable, versatile, and don 't need annoying things like sleep, pay, or union benefits; they are every company 's dream employee” (Dashevsky, 2015). The online retail industry is benefited by technological developments towards improving logistic and productivity.

In the beginning of the article, it stated how there are no registers, no check up lines, and, most importantly, NO CASHIERS. This means there is a limited amount of human interaction. If everyone goes to the store for one purpose, to buy food, this cuts out the time to socialize and meet new people in the supermarket because everyone is only there to shop, not mingle. Sometimes we meet the most interesting people waiting in the long checkup lines; without it, this might lead to no human interaction one day. In addition, if everyone decides to convert to this “new” system of shopping, what does this mean for humanity? We are constantly on our phones already, and with Amazon Go, it gives us an additional reason, or excuse, to use our mobile devices. By us constantly depending on our phones, we slowly stop depending on ourselves. We slowly stop depending on our brains for answers but begin “googling” everything online. For me, I am most afraid of human dependency on technology since it lowers human interaction. While Amazon Go will be able to save people time, one thing it will not save is humanity; the only way to save us, humans, is to limit our use of technology, for then will America and the world be one step closer to