This is a good article from the Austin American Statesman about
the dangers to the middle class, showing how jobs have become increasingly
unimportant. Because the corporations
are no longer focusing on a specific function and becoming conglomerates, they
are becoming less and less efficient. They
are paying people to do busywork. This
article is a good encompassment of how the corporation setting is degrading the
American economy. It points out how the
liberals and the conservatives do not agree on a way to fix the economy and so
nothing will get done. There were
several unintentional consequences to laws that were passed, like the creation
of suburbia from the interstate laws. This
created easy housing for the middle class, who were doing the busywork that
doesn’t need to be done. This article
says that the U.S.
is losing its power in the global economy because we rely so much on
corporations. Some say the rich should
give to the middle class, creating more consumers, but it would threaten the
amount of investment later. Others say
that a free market is the way to go, but that doesn’t guarantee how wealth is
distributed. The corporations have
stopped guaranteeing that people will have job security, because so many jobs
are being automated. A lot of things, we
just don’t need a human for anymore, but this also cuts down on the quality of
the work. I think that as long as people
have the means to survive, there should be meaningful work for people to make
suffecient income.
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