Critical Analysis: A World Without Work By Derek Thompson

A World without Work Could the world one day be run by robots due to technological advances? In the article “A World without Work”, Derek Thompson writes advances in technology have taken over thousands and thousands of people's jobs. Published in the July/August 2015 issue of The Atlantic, Thompson makes you think what if one day you will be jobless due to advances in technology; just like the 50,000 lost jobs in Youngstown, Ohio. Thompson clearly presents plenty of credible evidence to support his place that technology is taking over jobs, and this is only the beginning. But do to his personal opinions shown throughout the article it could be considered a bit bias. This critical analysis paper will prove Thompson’s idea that technology will one day take over our jobs indeed is credible. Derek Thompson begins his article with a tragic story in Youngstown, Ohio. The city lost 50,000 jobs, faced depression, and even a cultural breakdown all due to the switch to machinery. Derek Thompson talks with editor in chief James Bennet about the state of jobs in America, and they talk about how in the next decade or so 47% of jobs will be lost due to
Thompson does a very good job covering up his bias with credible and unbiased information. As stated in (Thompson, 10) “a committee of scientists and social activists sent an open letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson arguing that “the cybernation revolution” would create “a separate nation of the poor, the unskilled, the jobless,” who would be unable either to find work or to afford life’s necessities” this is a great example of valid information. Advances in technology make more classes happen, but sometimes things go the other way around because as technology advances people potentially will fall down the scale that determines your status in a society, and possible end up at the bottom of it