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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by jelliclesfarm on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:32PM (#21769058)
Are you a trucker?

Once upon a time, horse drawn carriages transported people and there were stables and groomsmen and carriage drivers and those who provided food and board for the horses. That entire industry and those jobs disappeared when the motor cars came along. They found other jobs. We moved on.

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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by crtlaltdel on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:47PM (#21769109)
^ this is a great comment, and speaks to the reality. as cars came to prominence a whole host of supporting industry developed, creating jobs. it seems like some of those jobs required more technical training than the jobs they replaced.
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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by deeblering4 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:53PM (#21769141)
Yeah, and once dinosaurs roamed the earth. It’s easy to make generalizations about the merits of moving on when you aren’t being left behind.
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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by jelliclesfarm on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @11:46PM (#21769336)
Yes. This is true..what you say. But the world keeps turning. C’est la vie etc.
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