To be or not to be afraid: Machines are coming for your job, not mine GlobeArts
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It’s pointed out that trucking employs 1.8 million people in the United States and when automation goes full-throttle, many will be unemployed. Asked how truckers might feel about this, the head of the company streamlining the new kind of truck says, “We try not to tell truckers things. We try to listen.” Some truckers are invited for a chat. They are rueful.
At Amazon, a top executive is gleeful when explaining how automation speeds delivery of goods. He sort-of longs for the day, which is coming, when there are robots with better judgment and more dexterous hands. An ex-Amazon worker is interviewed, a young man who says you are “working for the robots” at Amazon and his repetitive job almost destroyed him. The only agency he had in that job was choosing what to eat for lunch.
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