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However, the effect this next step can have on the overall economy can be disastrous. Not only is truck driver the most common profession, with their unemployme
by edko 10y ago
However, the effect this next step can have on the overall economy can be disastrous. Not only is truck driver the most common profession, with their unemployment creating hardships for millions of families, and the families of industries related to truck driving, but also the knock on effect that will have. Imagine all those families spending less, creating recession, lay-offs, and bankruptcies in every industry. It could be more disastrous than the housing crisis.
- astrodust 10y agoIt will have a pretty major impact on things, but then again, so did switching from wagons to diesel trucks. How many people making horse shoes and buggies went bankrupt? How many people were there that used to deal with the horses, with the carriages, with selling goods and services to people? The efficiencies gained by long-distance hauling being practical made entirely new industries possible. So long as this automated transport enables new business opportunities that require labour it will be a positive thing. If this is robotic trucks driving goods to robotic factories with products designed by robots, then we're screwed.
- flukus 10y agoAnd how much social upheaval was there? Enough to kill off a good chunk of the working population.