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UPS has 400,000 employees. Autonomous driving would pay itself off very quickly even if one of uber's cars personally murdered every single UPS and FedEx employ
by nxc18 9y ago
UPS has 400,000 employees. Autonomous driving would pay itself off very quickly even if one of uber's cars personally murdered every single UPS and FedEx employee. Of course, the issue at play isn't joblessness, but the lack of a safety net for when people lose their jobs. Still, in the u.s., very few people actually starve to death, even when unemployed.
Perhaps lack of health care will kill them all. But was their health care that good to begin with? Perhaps an actual solution for root problems is the better route.
- Sylphine 9y agoStaying with your parents isn't the idyllic life. I know from experience. /// Inb4 you want to held back technology. /// Technology's main focus should be improving peoples quality of living not maximizing profits and replacing employees with robots.
- thanksgiving 9y agoI disagree. Technology should be focused with all things that reduce the need for human labor. What we need is what gp says: a decent social safety net. It cannot happen as long as we vote for people who want to reduce taxes.
- csallen 9y agoReplacing employees is not the problem. In fact, it's a good thing. It frees people up to do more enjoyable things with their lives. The problem is that our economic system is unequipped to handle a world in which people aren't expected to work jobs "just because."
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- pyroinferno 9y agoAt one of our dinners, Milton recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.”