Question: Advances in technology and automation have reduced the need for manual labour. Therefore, working hours should be reduced. To what extent do you agree?
Answer:
Improving high-end technology and automation in industrial world can decrease the demand of human labour activities. It is significantly, may reduce the working hour of human labour.
In my opinion, I agree that the technology and automation can cut the duration of production in industrial daily works. However, I also believe that human labour is still needed.
Machines are made by people to help them finishing their tasks. Some of them made in orther the human tasks easily been done in a limit of time. Nowadays, industrial field developing their technology and automation to make the production becomes more effective and efficient. Therefore, many of them prefer to change their manual labour activity to machinery as automatic work. All those situations can cut the production cost, duration, and energy. They have not to pay human salary regularly, as before. It can improve the profit of the industrial field.
In other hand, I think industrial production still need human labour. Machines, actually, are made by human. Eventhough the machines automatically can finish the tasks, they still need human creation behind. They need to be maintained by people, as simple as to be set, controlled, turned on, and turned off. Those facts make automation can not automatically changes human activity. Human need automation but automation need human.
For the reasons mentioned above, it seems to me that automation can take part of human labour. It can make human task become more effective and efficient. However, automation can not easily change the need of human labour. It is still needed but in different way, to control, maintain, and stay behind the operation of the machines. So, I think working hour is not easily been cut because of the automation.
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