The Need for a New Middle
In the text ”The Need for a New Middle” written by Thomas L. Friedman and published in the book The World Is Flat, the author points out the characteristics of jobs which still will be needed in the future influenced by globalzation
Referring to Friedman it is important to make sure that you have a job that cannnot be replaced by any other person in the world or by technical progress. He calls this ”to make yourself an ‘untouchable’ (p.26, l.67). According to Friedman this means that your job cannot either be outsourced to a person in another country, digitized or automated by technical progress (cf. p.27, ll.70-72). In addition he notes that referring to analyst David Rothkopf most jobs are not outsourced to another country but replaced by technical inventions, ”they get digitized and automated”(p.27, l.75). He notes that in the era of globalization 3.0 there will be ‘fungible and non-fungible work’ (p.27, l.81). There will be categories of non-fungible work. First are ‘Special or specialized people’ like VIP’s who just cannot be automated, digitized or outsourced because they are too specialized (p.27, ll.90-95). Second are people that jobs are fixed to one place (p.27, ll.98-100).
All in all, one can say that it is really important in the future era of gloablization 3.0 to make sure that your job is unique and cannot be outsourced in the near future.
