工作伦理的式微与高等教育的变革

The Decline of Work Ethics and The Transformation of Higher Education

长期以来,人们普遍认为“工作即正义”。近年来,随着科技的发展和消费主义的盛行,工作伦理正在式微。一方面,由于体面工作机会的日益减少,越来越多的毕业生不得不去从事一些原本不需要具有高等教育学历的工作,导致受高等教育的经历与工作世界的关系愈加畸形。另一方面,人工智能对工作的取代和无意义工作的产生加速了“后工作时代”的到来,致使人们被工作奴役,成为廉价的劳工,同时也使高等教育沦为生产“工作机器”的“工厂”。为了避免人们在今后沦为“剩余”的劳动力,高等教育必须做出革新,通过传授给人们以更实用的通用技能并赋予工作以意义,从而为构建新社会契约做出贡献。

For a long time,a widely recognized social consensus is that“work is justice”.But in recent years,with the development of technology and consumerism,work ethics is declining.On the one hand,due to the decreasing opportunities for decent work,more and more graduates have to work in jobs that do not require higher education,leading to an increasingly deformed relationship between higher education and the world of job and the disillusionment of the meaning of work.On the other hand,the replacement of work by artificial intelligence and the emergence of meaningless work accelerated the arrival of the“post-work era”,which led to people being enslaved by work,and at the same time,made higher education become the“factory”of producing“work machines”.In order to avoid people becoming“surplus”in the future,higher education must make innovations,by teaching people more practical general skills and giving meaning to their work,we can reverse the trend of inequality and make contributions to the construction of a new social contract.