I clarified my outline and now I'm posting it.
- Introduce Topic - The relationship between technology an capitalism, and how this affects employment and could ultimately force a change in the economic system.
- Background Information
- Industrial Revolution
- Current employment problems
- What is expected for the future
- Introduce Argument - Technology may cause the end of capitalism.
- Thesis
- Section 1: The effects technology and capitalism have had on each other and employment (and perhaps the world).
- Technology and capitalism have been in a mutually beneficial relationship for a long time.
- Technology has replaced many manual workers, but has also created new jobs.
- Section 2: The problems that technology has created for capitalism and the modern world.
- Technology has fundamentally changed the way of life for most people in first world countries.
- Technology has allowed the production of enough 'essential resources' (like food) for everyone.
- The overproduction problem - 'enough for everyone' interferes with profit, and thus interferes with capitalism. Here capitalism's true problem is seen: it focuses only on profit in the end and has no care for society as a whole. Not to say all capitalists are like that; it's capitalism itself that is like that.
- Section 3: The possible outcomes.
- World Destruction - Humans go extinct or the world population is severely reduced. Society effectively ends.
- Technology regresses - We all go back to being farmers. The population would have to lower too. It would until balanced was reached. [Unlikely for this to happen?]
- Somehow nothing really happens and capitalism ends up alive and well while we're technologically advanced [like in Star Wars, though a logical explanation (yes, for a fictional universes) for that is that they hadn't hit the technological automation limit. But again, it's fiction and doesn't have to work in reality.]
- The system fundamentally changes with the world - some kind of distribution system. Communism is an option, not a necessity. [I might be able to write a new paper on this in a few years.]
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