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I’m not referring to the argument in the abstract, but the specific case of making unemployed 3.5 million truck drivers and the cost savings getting passed onto
by bugglebeetle 3y ago
I’m not referring to the argument in the abstract, but the specific case of making unemployed 3.5 million truck drivers and the cost savings getting passed onto consumers in the form of lower-priced goods. If this was a realistic scenario (setting aside that the driverless tech is not there) then why are the cost savings from exploiting truck drivers by making them all over-worked, independent contractors being passed on to consumers now? Instead, what we have is unrestrained corporate greed, with companies jacking up the price of goods to obscene levels and keeping the profits for themselves.
- zaptheimpaler 3y agoI agree grocery prices have been nuts recently. Canada recently completed a study on high prices that concluded there's not enough competition in the market [1]. They made some recommendations but nothing will be done lol.. My problem is that people are increasingly blaming technology for the failures of the government. Self driving trucks SHOULD make things cheaper. Having a robot do things that people used to do SHOULD help us all in the long run the same way washing machines do. But when it doesn't, people have such low expectations of the government that they don't even consider that option. Like are we supposed to just stop all scientific and technological progress that could endanger jobs now, just freeze society in the state its at now? The way I see it we need both levers, science and government to make progress. Lately the sentiment is we should burn down the half that works because the other half doesn't work. I think that's the wrong approach. [1] https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/competition-bureau-canada/en/retail-grocery-market-study https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/competition-bureau-canada/e...