Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’

Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by dagw on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:30AM (#14399760)

Give me UBI and I quit my job to settle country side tomorrow, so would my wife. So would a few of my colleagues.

If you're a halfway skilled programmer you can scrape together the equivalent of what you'd get on any sort of realistic UBI doing small freelance jobs while living in the country side.

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by geon on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:20AM (#14399928)

And going freelance is scary without some kind of economical safety net. Like ubi.

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by bicubic on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:05AM (#14400277)

Bingo. All of these 'but you can work remotely' suggestions are non starters to anyone who isn't already relatively wealthy, because they carry immense risk.

If there was a serious safety net that guaranteed a decent quality of life, a significant portion of people would be taking on those options and leave the city centers.

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by pnutjam on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:17PM (#14402495)

True, it's one thing to convince your employer to let you work remotely. It's a totally different thing to convince a new employer to hire you remotely. I'm leaving the midwest because there are too few opportunities for the work I do. I'll be fighting it out in NY soon.

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by Pica_soO on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:43AM (#14417602)

Not worth the people you have to put up with.

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