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Waste of resources. A human can do other things besides drive a van around all day. We spend all this money educating people. So they can do a job a person with a 3rd grade education can do?
Been in automation a long time. Have personally witnessed the primary task of a worker being replaced by a bin.
We should encourage anything that gets rid of mindless tasks and dehumanizes workers
And they should do what instead to put food on the table?
UBI comes to mind.
Maybe we should implement that first and fire all the delivery people second? But as long as Amazon saves money, that's the important thing.
Find other work? I apologize the rest of the human race doesn't want to subsidize your lifestyle of thinking as little as possible.
What other work? Do jobs just appear out of the ether for people with delivery experience on their resume?
Truck driver? You know the most common job in the US. Do the people who you are advocating for know you have so little respect for their intelligence that you think they literally can do nothing else except drive a van around? I would be pretty insulted if someone was saying that my limitations were my current job.
You need a different license to drive a big rig truck than you do a package delivery truck. They would have to be retrained. Amazon sure won't pay for that. Who will?
And do you think trucking wouldn't also get automated?
Yeah so you will need to to take a class for a few days. So so burdensome. You can get an employer to sponsor the few hundred dollars or put it on credit. It isn't a lot of money you are talking about here.
Trucking could be automated one day but not tomorrow.
Just a fyi, people like it when you answer questions they ask instead of whining. I asked you a question and I noticed you didn't answer it. You will observe that I have answered all of your questions.
It takes more than a few days to get trained to get a CDL license. What a silly thing to say.
I also must have missed your question, but since you've insulted me by saying I'm "whining," I'm certainly not inclined to answer it now.
Don't worry we are done.
Why? Have you run out of insults?