INTERLOCKING TREADMILLS Essays - Economy, Production Economics

INTERLOCKING TREADMILLS Author's Name Institutional Affiliation The initial logic of the treadmill of production was brought to light by Allan Schainberg in the World War II era because of the mode of lifestyle in that period. In juxtaposition to the ecological disorganization of that period, life has become equally disorganized with the hustle and tussle of the life ladder whereby everyone is in the rush to achieve economic success or even academic prosperity. As Schainberg put it, the ecosystem faced destruction brought about by capitalism and the thirst for economic growth (Schnabel, 2017). As the people keep on building structures and facilities for their own betterment, they do not see the environment gradually waste away. The Same case applies to the human thirst for knowledge where we struggle to advance knowledge-wise so much that we even forget that we are only human beings and can do only so much. Life is full of many activities to partake in from recreational to spiritual and so on but due to the rising standards that life requires from us, we are forced to abide by the current state of living. For one to be able to live a posh' life, one needs to study hard in order to get a good well paying job, in order to have a lavish life and hence success. But we look at it like it is the only means of survival. In the real sense, we are slowly being consumed by the studies because they believe if they don't study enough, they will not get their desired jobs because a lot is required by the bosses to confirm acceptance in any desired field. An engineer, for instance, has basic knowledge of their work but most have different levels of education. They will still strive for the advancement of their studies for the employers gauge their work skill by their level of study, not their previous experiences (Vallas, 2016). This makes the engineers work hard in order to get a degree, another higher degree and eventually advance as much as possible. They will eventually get lost in that education in the thirst for further advancement most of them not because they want to but because they have to, if not their fellow engineers will get much more job opportunities and achieve what they all require. In the treadmill of production, they achieved economic growth but in the process also achieved the destruction of the ecological niche in the name of advancement. From cutting down trees to create a space for construction to cut down much more trees to extract the fine resources from them, capitalism was at its peak in this World War II era because modernization began then. Today, the academic era and the life expectations can be well compared to Allan's theory because in both situations one thing is wasted away due to overlooking it and being consumed by the indulgence of one activity (Watson, 2017). For one to achieve a well-paying job, one has to definitely work hard because in this era even the bosses demand a lot of qualifications for them to be guaranteed of a satisfactory employee. In addition to the high standards set, life itself has gotten so costly and in this era, it is every man for himself meaning that if one does not work hard, as the treadmill of production theory shows that for capitalism to be achieved, there had to be ecological disorganization. In juxtaposition with the life matters we can, therefore, say that for there to be sustenance in life and achievement of many goals, there has to be some deprivation of life activities in order to achieve standards that life expects us. References Watson, T. (2017). Sociology, work, and organization. Taylor Francis. Schnabel, L. (2017). Book Review: Research in the Sociology of Work: Work and Family in the New Economy edited by Samantha K. Ammons and Erin L. Kelly. Vallas, S. (Ed.). (2016). Research in the Sociology of Work. Emerald Group Publishing.