Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Discussion Question 4/13

If someone discovers a cure for the common cold, should he or she hide it to protect all the jobs of all the people who work in the cold-medicine industry?

I think that they should because I'm sure that those who have jobs in the cold-medicine industry can get other jobs making medicine for a different disease since there are so many others diseases. Also, I think that the benefit of the cure overcomes that of the negativity of the job loss. Also, from the cure new jobs are really created such as someone who makes vaccination for the cure. Identify reasons why so many people react negatively to advances in technology that eliminate some jobs. One reason is that when one's job is eliminated it can be extremely hard to find another. Additionally, another reason do to this is that when one doesn't have a job it usually means that they are experiencing financial problems and even sometimes in today's recession homelessness. Another could be that they cannot provide for their family and may have to give them up for adoption.

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