Comment by ninetyninenine 2 days ago
Driving is not grueling work. Imagine a utopia where people aren't needed for any work at all! No job for you. Only AI robots taking care of rich people while everything else burns. Just make sure you're one of the rich ones and everything is A-okay!
Agreed. But it’s not grueling. Programming you also sit for long periods. Programming usually isn’t considered grueling.
You don’t have to sit to program, and there are generally far more degrees of freedom, e.g. bathroom breaks and eating healthy food from a fridge and microwave, etc.
Also, many/most taxi drivers have to regularly work evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. (Also upping the risk due to sleepy or drunk drivers).
Uber drivers can take a break and pick their own hours whenever they want. They can even nap wherever they want.
Still not grueling imo.
This is just devolving into a dispute about the definition of grueling.
The dictionary says “extremely tiring and demanding”. Letting random people into your space, putting your primary income generating asset at risk, being on constant alert, and working long, undesirable hours that results in health problems qualifies as grueling for me. Maybe not as grueling as some other types of labor, but obviously more grueling than 95% of programming jobs.
The drivers taking constant breaks and working whenever they feel like it are not the ones earning any decent amount of money.
Sitting for extended periods of time is bad for one’s health. Also, being in a vehicle is the highest morbidity/mortality risk thing people do. More time on the road = more chance of injury.