Ever since the process of industrialization started, social scientists have been consistently expressing fears that the world is moving towards joblessness for all low level manual skilled/unskilled workers. Recently, computerization and robotics have added to this fear like never before. Smart and innovative ways of using computers, robots and internets have threatened to displace even those humans who are engaged in the high-middle level management cadre. Teachers are feeling threatened as online courses have started flooding the internet. With promising research in the area of artificial intelligence and robotics being reported frequently, even high level cadres along with the middle-level management cadres are feeling unsecured about their jobs. Automation is widely understood to be targeting at displacing humans from their jobs. Are we moving towards a jobless world where there will be no jobs left for humans? This paper aims at finding an answer to such concerns first by finding a similarity between a thermodynamic system and a social/commercial establishment and then applying the laws of thermodynamics to such systems. It will be interesting to compare a social/business establishment with those of a thermodynamic system and identify isomorphism associated with both the systems. There is a possibility of application of laws of thermodynamics in a commercial system and open up a new field of study.

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