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> use his billions to start providing a basic income to displaced truck drivers? Are there no other viable options to "truck drivers being replaced by automati

• clairity 7y ago
  yes, UBI's first- and second-order effects are designed to corral the citizenry into more control and dependency on the elite, rather than the stated intent of providing security and freedom. besides, it's just as straightforward to offer every citizen a part-time job with the government that's worth $1000/mo and avoid most of its unintended consequences. i would have supported yang more had he not staked his whole campaign on UBI, as he'd otherwise made some sensible arguments.
• ska 7y ago
  I don't know the answer, but one problem is that truck driving is already often a plan "B" (or "C", or ...), in that it provided a practical home for workers displaced from other industries. Often one they didn't have to move to get. This has difficult implications if you are looking for things these folks can do instead of trucking.
• lmm 7y ago
  You're talking about a demographic that is largely old, in poor health, and with few other skills. They're not going to see a huge RoI from training/education, and they're not attractive to employers. At the moment, their value proposition is that they're doing an unpleasant, unhealthy job that not many other people want to; it's hard to see how that would translate into good employment opportunities in other sectors, or even if we should want it to.