argument143 [Victors小组]第10次作业 by ruczephyr

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题目：ARGUMENT143 - The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a national newspaper.

"Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in the United States is misleading. The article gives the mistaken impression that many competent workers who lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this impression is contradicted by a recent report on the United States economy, which found that since 1992 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated. The report also demonstrates that many of those who lost their jobs have found new employment. Two-thirds of the newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time."

*Downsizing is the process in which corporations deliberately reduce the number of their employees.

In the argument, the author disapproves an article on corporate downsizing of the editor of a national newspaper, to substantiate the critics the author mentions evidences that an increasing amount of jobs are offered , most of which are well-paid, and the persons who lost jobs are able to get back to works every easily. The argument looks verisimilar at the first glance, however, in-depth scrutiny reveals several logical fallacies as follows.

First and foremost, when providing the report as evidence, the author commits a serious mistake that he omits comparative statistics of the amount of labors since 1992. As better situation of employment stands for  that the number of people waiting for a job ,if not less than, more or less, equals to the positions offered to them, thus, only including that more jobs have been offered than eliminated, I have enough reasons to doubt that there is the amount of job-hunting persons overwhelms the number of position available subtracted by job quality eliminated. So, under this circumstance, the report, lacking necessary comparative information, could not serve to convince us that job hunters are not facing difficulties finding a position.

What is more, another conclusion drawn from the report that many unemployed persons have found new jobs does not lend credence to the point that they no longer need to face economic hardship. It is entirely possible that all such employment only offer them so little wage, which is seriously  lower than the standard salary, that the employees can not use them to make end meet. Or even grant that most of such employments do give them equally salary according to the social standard, however, if, quite possibly, there just experience an economical depression, which raises prices of daily expenditure for the employees . Based on the points above, whether the employments the workers can find are able to help them out of the dilemma of economic crisis is still open to doubt.

In addition, serves as the last evidence, the ostensive well-paid position from newly created jobs, which are primarily full-time, also fails to justify the point that it could fundamentally deal with economic hardship of the employees.  The author deliberately mentions that such positions are in industries, so I can question that such positions consume a larger amount of strength or ,the working environment of which might be harmful to the health of the workers, cause serious occupational disease. While, in contrary, the money paid to the workers might not even cover the expenditure to regain strength or of medical treatment, let alone eliminate economic hardship for the employees. Moreover, full-time jobs also only mean stable employment rather than profitable economical conditions. Consequently, in brief, the last evidence does not provide sound support to convince me to believe that newly created jobs greatly improve economic situation for the employees.

To sum up, based on the fallacies above, the author's critic upon the article of the editor is ungrounded. To better evaluate his argument, the author needs to substantiate the point that better employment are, indeed, beneficial to the employees by offering them the ability to make ends meet.

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