Integration of Robots in the Production System of Creating Jobs

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Robots Creating Jobs
Technology has changed the way that various processes are carried out in production. One of the areas that has some significant changes with reference to automation of various production line processes. This is with reference to the role that robots now play in providing services and functions that were traditionally carried out through human labor. As such, there has been a debate relative to the issue regarding robot replacing human labor and causing unemployment levels to rise (Khan, Mynul). Over the years most of the jobs that human labor would traditionally carryout have been taken up by the robotic machines on most of the factory floors. Millions of jobs that would otherwise be a platform for most of the people to provide for their families are now done by robots. However, this has been with some element of subtle refinement when it comes to the level of efficiency and effectiveness (Gear, Kevin Kelly). Robots tend to be effective relative to the fact that they do not have all the human factors that result in delays or poor-quality production. For example, the robots will not get tired or even go on strike when they are not paid well. With the simple click of a mouse or the touch of a button, the robots will complete their tasks in record time and with little or no errors and will be ready for the next task. While the debate about the robots taking up most of the jobs it is crucial to consider, the fact that, ideally, they have created more jobs than they have taken.
Thesis statement: integration of robots in the production system does not lead job loss but rather creates more diverse jobs and an efficient production system.
Much of the period be period before the early 19th century was a time when agriculture was one of the main source of income for most of the families. This means that most of the people worked on the farms and the productions lines that existed at the time for most of the industries were rudimentary. Then came the industrial revolution in the early 19 centuries and everything changed. Much of what is happening now with the robots taking on most of the jobs that were traditionally carried out by through human labor can be compared to an industrial evolution (Gear, Kevin Kelly). Through the element of automation that came with the industrial revolution, millions of jobs were lost to the robots. This would have been considered to be a groom future with most of the jobs on the farms having shifted to using machines. However, for every job that was taken by the robots there were more created, well into the millions.
‘It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that—in slow motion—is what the industrial revolution did to the workforce of the early 19th century. Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of American workers lived on the farm. Today automation has eliminated all but 1 percent of their jobs, replacing them (and their work animals) with machines. But the displaced workers did not sit idle. Instead, automation created hundreds of millions of jobs in entirely new fields. Those who once farmed were now manning the legions of factories that churned ...