Oh the other hand, my brother has done a fair amount of truck driving and I'm aware it's a common job in the US.
Maybe now that Bloomberg has dropped out he get together with Yang and use his billions to start providing a basic income to displaced truck drivers?
It is the #1 job in 29 states as of 2014.
Like, if you split it up into long haul, short haul, in-town, etc, truck driver would fall down the list rapidly.
Example for Super Tuesday commentary. These are snppets of only conversations Yang participated in.
Social media is turning sections of the public back a few centuries where mere a positive reference is guilt-by-association and the tribalistic off-with-the-head mentality kicks in.
It's quite nasty and anti-intellectual, and the growing prevalence and toleration of it for political ends honestly scares me a bit.
I don't know if it's mutual, though?
Sometimes I get the feeling that more than 50% of road-time in the US is spent looking at a phone.
It's enough to make me wonder if "x% of accidents involved texting and driving" is even a convincing metric. If god damned everybody is texting and driving all the god damned time, of course lots of accidents involve texting and driving.
Are there no other viable options to "truck drivers being replaced by automation" than basic income? I've read a lot of pushback about basic income online.
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.
This has difficult implications if you are looking for things these folks can do instead of trucking.