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1.8 million American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots. What then? vox.com/2016/8/3/12342… via @voxdotcom
Mickey Kaus
Kausfiles
1.8 million American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots. What then? vox.com/2016/8/3/12342… via @voxdotcom
@kausmickey @voxdotcom Buy a gun?
@kausmickey @voxdotcom They can drive trucks in India on reciprocal H-1B visas. Hillary will see to it.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom And cab drivers, uber drivers, imagine a world where cops can’t write tickets… Traffic court judges..
@kausmickey @voxdotcom Interesting. Did the trucking industry boom after NAFTA? & I would rather not have robots driving big rigs.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom I am sure Trump will save them by waiving his magic wand..Technology is causing disruption & it’s not going back.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom maybe the robots won’t tailgate and kill people in normal-sized cars.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom Lawyers will render that impossible.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom Moar immigrants.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom this was debunked when it first came around. UPS guy is a “truck driver”. How much of his job can a robot replace?
@kausmickey @voxdotcom First, after the boys and girls at Vox celebrate, they will call for ten million more 3rd world peasants to the USA.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom depressing. Americans aren’t going to be allowed to make a dime in our new techno-fascist economy
@kausmickey @voxdotcom hard to justify having children. automation is a bigger threat to their lives than the national debt will ever be
@kausmickey @voxdotcom Wow, so I lived to see Mickey Kaus write for @HuffingtonPost & link to JuiceVoxMedia! Trump nom’s got nothing on this
@kausmickey @voxdotcom Also means the death of a country & western sub-genre the truck driver song: Six Days on the Road & I need to Reboot.
@kausmickey @voxdotcom solution: MOAR IMMIGRATION!