They shoulda let it flood then rebuild

She didn't even make an ice dam

The water just straight up disappeared

Very poorly executed

@Seesaw WAT, how do you suppose

Jobs have been reducing for a long time while productivity is doubling

Over 30-40 years

@Seesaw I'm too laggy effectively to speak but...
The empirics do not align with your claims...

And the projections seem reasonable to believe

I'm shit

It will create more jobs, yes. But that still creates job displacement

Wait, what... automation is creeping up on every industry

Even DOCTORS

If you appeal to plumbing, sure, but you still need to get into why plumbing has seen increase in wages / etc

More white collar workers have made there more demand for blue collar workers

There's an excess of white collar labor

I don't know the UK's contracting / infrastructure / civil engineering works so

If you're thinking about the UK, it might be a less massive problem...
But in America, it's an insanely realistic problem

A la: He brings up the number of truck drivers that may be displaced

It's like 15+mil truck drivers

What... just saying "It's not going to happen" isn't true...
It will happen, it's just when...

You should say argue that it's going to happen slowly or incrementally

AND IT HAS IN AVIATION

There's more demand probably for flight than in the past

So this argument fails because, of course, the absolute numbers of pilots will be higher

An airplane needs a lot less dynamic sensors so

The question is far more complex than
Airplane easier to automate
Car harder to automate
Therefore automation won't replace the users of these vehicles

Since the *demand for air travel* has increased since the 70s

Trucks are a massive part of the supply chain

I don't know all the history of the US supply chain and the economics behind it

But saying things can't change sounds silly... they have changed...
The economics of making engines and such more efficient since then

TRUCKS PLAY A HUGE PART IN THE US reeeeee

You're just assuming the conclusion that trucks won't be automated

Ok... and that's likely going to displace some percents of truck drivers, right?

So if 15 mil truck drivers... say only 10% are displaced. That's 1.5 mil

You're getting at the argument that it will free up capital to hire *more truck drivers* but

I don't think you see this trend in most ventures...

You're cutting costs... but by cutting the laborer out of it

I mean... this literally sounds like Marx's Organic composition meme....
But I don't know if you know about it

And you're leveraging a certain critique, that's been leveraged before... the automation frees up laborers *to do other things*

And that creates jobs