The material and ideological conditions of our society are important to understanding our social situation. This essay outlines material and ideological conditions and how they signify our social situation. Material condition means production, exchange and organization of society. By ideological condition we mean the common ideas in society. This essay will focus on the following readings: “The End of Work” by Jeremy Rifkin, “Where the Wasteland Ends” by Theodore Roszak, “The Making of Economic Society” by Robert Heilbroner, and “The Tyranny of Work” by James W. Rinehart .Material conditions in our society are very important. The introduction of machines reduced the number of workers in the workforce. Goods were mainly produced by machines with a little help from humans. Technology has developed that leads workplaces to look for new ways to reduce costs and produce efficient products. In the book “Where the Wasteland Ends” by Theodore Roszak it is stated that knowledge grows and how tomorrow's knowledge will be enormous. Today's knowledge will always be the basis for tomorrow's knowledge. (Roszak,149) Today's people know more than those of the past. This refers to the article "The End of Work" by Jeremy Rifkin which states that people in the past had their own knowledge of producing their own things for their own needs and that these workers had to make the products for other people who then they led to invent machines to get rid of workers. This proves the fact that “the workers” were the old knowledge and the “machines” were the new knowledge. With the growth of technology, in other words of "science", new knowledge would be developed and this would lead today's young generations to become more intelligent than the previous generation. The jobs present in our society today are related to technology and therefore the work done by people shows their worth. If you had more knowledge about recent technology, you would have a higher value. (Rifkin, 17)In the book “The Making of Economic Society” by Robert Heilbroner it is stated that in order for human beings to earn their daily bread they must work. (Heilbroner,1) In our world, well-developed countries depend on other countries to supply their daily needs and other products. They don't make their own products, but ship materials in and out of the country for their citizens to use. (Heilbroner, 3) Countries like U.