would it not be in the interest of the nation to incentivise education, especially into salable trades and skills?

I am a company driver

It would be in the interest of the individual, not the nation

I dont have the experience or knowledge to be independent

How you feeling about the self driving semis?

Plus I have great benefits and the company paid for all my training

The nation doesn't really care whether the individual is rich or poor, able or unable, the nation just needs to survive, and individual cost is irrelevant.

I will be out of the business by then

Pros they can run between cities
Cons they cant be trusted to drive inside of a city

thats a novel perspective

Too many moving components

It will also probably only be dry van for now

Maxxi, flatbed, and reefer all require human intervention pretty consistently

Considering the self driving semis cant even pass dot standards I am not terribly worried yet

But it would be stupid to dent the threat they pose

Hence why I am going to school for computer science

@Jokerfaic
Why coax people into meaningful and inexpensive education that will likely land them a well paying job when you can have them get a degree in something useless, run up a shit ton of Student Debt, and Bleed them dry as they live in a shitty studio, work a minimum wage job, and spend what they don't use on Student Loans on Tattoos, Online Subscriptions, and Ben & Jerry's while spending their weekends getting drunk and having copious amounts of Unprotected Sex with Brent, Chaz, and TJ

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People who are poor are usually terrible with money

No one who makes more than 40k that I know buys scratch cards

I get one drink a month

It is a glass of black heart on the rocks

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the fuck is a scratch card? also I'm pretty sure that wasn't his point.

Scratch cards are lotto shite

Lotto-reeeee

lotto?

Lottery

You pay for tickets in the hopes you win lots of stuff

is THAT how that works?

You are more likely to be struck by lightning twice in most cases

Aka state-funded gambling

Buy cards worth 80 Bucks, Scratch with coin, win 7 Dollars and 30 Cents, take back to Gas Station, Repeat with next Paycheck

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It goes more like this

wow... Oregon schools jusy said "its gambling and therefore illegal" and wouldn't tell us anything else

Buy 20 cards, scratch all of them, win $5, drink your losses away with it

or maybe that was just mine

Its a huge thing in the lower classes

Yeah I've seen what people do with lottery tickets

Gamble away all your money and thus stay under the states thumb