Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads - eviltoast
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    7 months ago

    literally the last decent paying job you can get without a degree in most of them.

    Relatively decent paying. Most truckers are still contractors with the company they ship for, so they’re paying for their own truck and its maintenance, they have few benefits, awful working hours, typically horrid management, and an extremely unhealthy lifestyle because of the nature of the job.

    It’s an industry that is incredibly harmful to the people working it. We should automate it away, but it sucks that it’ll come at the cost of people’s livelihoods and at the profit of the few company owners. Same story as ever.

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        7 months ago

        This is how I’ve always felt about automation. Why keep doing the menial, shit jobs that are harmful to people’s health? Why continue wasting time in meaningless repetitive jobs?

        Let us get more time back to live our lives, let us share in the production gains brought about by automation. Let us have meaningful lives outside of just our capacity to produce profits for corporations.

        Except the ruling class won’t let that happen. We’re still fighting just to work from home for jobs that can be done entirely from home.