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The reminds me of the dryly satiric, darkly comic Magnus Mills novel "The Scheme for Full Employment"[1]. It concerns "UniVan" drivers delivering loads to diffe
by xefer 11y ago
The reminds me of the dryly satiric, darkly comic Magnus Mills novel "The Scheme for Full Employment"[1]. It concerns "UniVan" drivers delivering loads to different UniVan depots around the country. It eventually becomes apparent that the only thing they are delivering are UniVan parts and the only work being done at the depots is maintenance and repair of the UniVans themselves. The entire enterprise had been established to provide busy work.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scheme_for_Full_Employment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scheme_for_Full_Employment
- bohm 11y agoSelf-Driving cars will obsolete Univan Drivers
- CPLX 11y agoThe HN self-driving car fetish has apparently metastasized out of its usual Uber and Google threads and has started infecting and spawning here in totally unrelated topics apparently.
- moron4hire 11y agoDude, it's on-topic. The conversation is about people losing jobs because of automation. The comment was that even the fake jobs will probably get automated away.
- pjc50 11y agoWorse than that, they eventually go on strike, causing the scheme to collapse.