Craig Lambert's Our Unpaid Extra Shadow Work

As with the Industrial Revolution, the Robot Revolution has too been faced with many adversaries. As in the past many claim that it would be end of society as we know it, so does Craig Lambert in “Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work.” Lambert argues against the automation of, what use to be, human jobs. Lambert, an editor and writer at the Harvard Magazine, argues that automation has lead to a loss of 3 million jobs (861). Lambert also exclaims that “the robots are in charge now, pushing a thousand routine tasks onto our backs” (862). Lambert says that we are not a service economy as many claim, we are a “no-service” economy, ruled by robots and only concerned about profits. What Craig Lambert’s lacks is an unbiased look at the evidence, which

What the author fails to mention is that is is about 3 minutes a day per person. While that number could infact be used to allocate about 3 million part-time jobs, it would need about 1.2 billion more minutes for full-full time jobs, and an over statement that large is not done by accident, it is planned to trick the reader into believing a disingenuous author. The other matter concerning this figure is that while that number is true, that amount of time would not be infact added into the productivity of the economy if we hired those individuals back, but subtracted from it, as now two people would be doing the job just one person did. Lambert demonstrates a conservative attitude focused on the return to old customs, and in doing so he fails to see that his near sighted ideas are not viable on their own as an argument. Lambert rhetoric observes what many politicians have long done, he paints innovation as the ennemy and an onquoqureble force and preaches that the only way to succeed is to destroy that enemy. Lam fails in the fact that he does not see the spectrum of that this issue encompases, he sees a monochrome picture in which a side must be