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Take Our Jobs By Kevin Kelly: Article Analysis

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As technology advances and robots become more vital to our everyday life, machines will ruin the human race. Although, the invention of robots has created major controversy around it, according to Kevin Kelly, writer of “Better than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs”, it is believed that increasing automation in the workplace must occur because it will benefit our society and increase productivity. He suggest that instead of essentially competing against robots we should welcome them and work alongside them. Kelly uses convincing arguments and an authoritative matter of fact tone to successfully persuade the reader, but fails to use counter arguments to further prove his argument. In this article, Kelly uses convincing arguments, logic and reasoning to show that when humans and robots work together it can increase work production and better our society. Kelly …show more content…

Kelly makes it clear that even if our current jobs disappear, productivity will continue to increase, creating new jobs for us. But, he never counter argues that not everyone will have the availability or the financial stability to own their own personal robots but instead assumes that everyone will be able to afford one or have access to one. This suggest that the people who do not own robots will not be able to keep up with the people who have access to them. Therefore, if you do not have a high tech robot you will not be successful. Also, Kelly never addresses the possibility of the machines breaking or something malfunctioning within the technology. This creates a whole new discussion about the use of robots and if they are really that effective or even worth it when it comes to using them in our everyday lives. With Kelly’s absence of counterarguments he leaves the reader with many “What if?’ questions and does not fully convince the reader of his

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