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

I don't see how it *necessarily creates jobs* though

It seems like there's a presupposition that there *will be more jobs* and I don't know how you're arriving on that conclusion

@Seesaw This is a huge tangent, but have you heard the meme of literally using a blimp full of helium in the atmosphere for transport?

It's been brought up

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-10/china-s-hoping-airships-will-revolutionize-air-transport

@Seesaw There seems like a foundation though... you think he's wrong
I think he's right

But how about the rest of his policies... they all seem relatively reasonable to me

Aerospace is one industry though... granted that works as a model, yes

Yeah... but you can't fully trust the system *anyway*
If I insert, you can't fully trust a human...

So you only need the system to *perform better than a human*

But fails in strange ways, right?

Law of unintended consequence

Sure, that's fine... capitalists are still going to push automation

rip

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