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Re:Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Dri... by pitt1980 on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:32AM (#6571922)
you want to explain why its better for train drivers to be out of a job?

creative destruction might be better for the system as a whole,

that's different than saying there aren't winners and losers, only winners

the further we go down the wormhole of automating away work, that's a question we shouldn't just blow off

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Re:Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Dri... by sdfjkl on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:52AM (#6572034)
Same reason for anyone in that situation: The sooner they learn/do something else, the sooner they can acquire a new useful skillset, instead of dragging on their now useless one. It's not like this is an intermediate problem and if we just subsidize them long enough, there'll suddenly be a need for train drivers again.
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Re:Could San Francisco Automate Strike-Threatening Train Dri... by pitt1980 on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:45PM (#6572753)
there is no guarentee that whatever replacement level work any paticular driver will do will be better than their current situation

so how are they better off?

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