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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by int_19h on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:49PM (#14404618)
If we're retraining people to do it, we absolutely should, because we'd be spending significant resources for something that might prove a very short-sighted investment. It might be better to just invest that money into automation to do that same work instead.
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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by dagw on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:15AM (#14409105)
I imagine that most jobs that have a 'value' of ~$5/hour don't require much training. Also we could implement this policy tomorrow if we wanted to while automation is still many years out (at best) for a lot of tasks, so the two policies could be run in parallel.
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