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Researchers believe that soon the technical progress will radically aggravate social inequality Two very important indicators regarding the future labor market recently stirred up the public:
– only 85 people control the same amount of funds as the poorest part of the world;
– 47% of all work in the world in the next twenty years will be able to perform robots.
Combined, these two factors portend an imminent onset. dystopia. As more and more automatic technology will be able to meet the needs of corporations more and more workers will be replaced by robots – because this will allow companies reduce costs and increase profits. First it will affect the sector service and production, and the next wave of automation will deprive work of accountants, call center specialists and agents real estate.
So say the data from a study conducted in 2013 Oxford University. The researchers tried to figure out which types of work can be automated, and they themselves were amazed result. Creative professions and occupations requiring high qualifications turned out to be the safest – but everything related with manual labor, is at risk and will soon be automated. Machine tools, typing, even retail trade – all these specialties will disappear.
And, as has always happened in history, the elite will reap fruit.
Economist Explains: “Well-Being Released during the digital revolution, it passed mainly to the owners capital and highly skilled workers. During the last three decades, the share of income of the “working class” decreased in globally from 64% to 59%. At the same time, the share of income 1% of the elite in America has grown from 9% in the 1970s to 22% today. Unemployment in rich countries reached alarming levels. In 2000, 65% of people working age in the US had a job; although since the country’s population has decreased, employment is now among the able-bodied part of the population is about 59%. ”
This trend is observed not only in the States. According to report released to the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, “85 richest people in the world together own capital in 1 trillion pounds, equivalent to a combined capital of 3.5 billion the world’s poorest. “And corporations owned by the richest people on the planet are already engaged in development robots that will allow them to concentrate in their hands even more funds.
According to an Economist article, this cycle when new technologies old ones replace, and old professions are replaced by new ones, this time will be one-sided. In the new information the economy that has replaced the old production oriented, there will simply be no need for so many unskilled labor: last year Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook together valued at 1 trillion dollars, but only 150,000 work in these companies human.
All of these points lead to disappointing conclusions: in the upcoming global, technologically advanced and overloaded inequality in the world, we run the risk of becoming cyber peasants caring behind the lawn of wealthy feudal lords owning cars. Analysts predict the emergence of new fighters against the ruling class, and it’s easy to understand why: so that 99% of future income from developing technologies were not in the hands of a handful of people, we will need policy measures to adapt to the new to the mechanized world.
A radical redistribution of income is on the way: for example, Switzerland and Germany are already thinking about introducing a “minimum guaranteed income “provided by the state.
Mankind already owns agricultural, energy and household technologies needed to revise the global scheme income distribution to make them more even. So that when the rich and their robots tackle global markets labor, social transformations will be much more important than any technological advances.
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