Anonymous #2 7w

Almost 1% of the US does this for a living dawg…

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Not even CLOSE to worth what you’re advocating for

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He’s right you’re selling bullshit

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Anonymous #3 7w

And 150 years ago 50% of the US was farmers doing agriculture for a living. Times change. I think the government should obviously try to help minimize the impact but you can’t hold off on technology forever to keep obsolete jobs around.

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Anonymous #2 7w

So your plan is to literally delete the livelihoods of 1% of the US, and you don’t have a plan for what comes next? These guys are going to eat you alive dawg. Truckers don’t fuck around

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Anonymous #3 7w

What I’m saying is maybe we should consider plans for what comes next rather than indefinitely block a technology that’s safer for the rest of society so we can keep those people in a job that won’t be as needed in the future. I don’t see how digging ourselves into this Luddite hole where we reject all new technology is better for everyone in the long run

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Anonymous #2 7w

Like imagine if we blocked telecom technology because we wanted to keep switchboard operators around, or blocked the use of computers because there were people who literally worked as “computers” doing complex math calculations. Arguably a lot of good, high-paying jobs have come from short-term job displacement which allows people to move to more meaningful roles

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Bitch sit down I am talking to #2

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Anonymous #2 7w

Telecom operators? Women sitting at desks?Dawg we are talking about American truckers. Every. Single. American. Trucker. Do you have any idea what kind of ppl these are, what kind of clout they have, and the shit they’ve done over FAR less? Yall are playing with FIRE dawg

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Anonymous #4 7w

Only you people would describe firing some one as “freeing them up” like do you clowns fucking hear yourselves

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Anonymous #3 7w

Ok so basically what you’re saying is automating jobs that are predominantly done by women is cool and alright, but we have to alter our government policy to make sure we don’t automate jobs that men do because they’ll vaguely threaten violence. It just seems silly

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Anonymous #2 7w

Look I can tell you’ve ever met people working in this industry. It’s everything to them it’s their culture, it’s not a job. It’s literally one of the most prominent subcultures in the country it’s like trying to get rid of goth or emo or anime or frat culture

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Anonymous #3 7w

Well what’s the plan to keep them around then? How long does the rest of society have to bear the burden of less safety on the roads and all the secondhand effects of limiting the scalability of our distribution systems to keep these jobs around? 50 years? 100? And imagine doing this for any occupation threatened by automation. It just seems like a much more viable option to try upskilling these people while automation still isn’t widespread.

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You know what would be better than more trucks? More trains. Autonomous trucks will only further entrench the problems of the long-haul transit industry (especially around road infrastructure degradation and emissions) without actually solving them.

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Anonymous #6 7w

CS is one of the most objectively morally bankrupt fields in society today, not because the field is that way inherently, but because those at the top are incredibly abhorrent, and it filters down so much into the culture. Not every software dev you meet is an absolute psycho, but the probability any individual dev being one is definitely considerably higher than the general public.

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