Comment by dmd
Comment by dmd 9 hours ago
God, yes, and someone think of the gong farmers and pole men.
Comment by dmd 9 hours ago
God, yes, and someone think of the gong farmers and pole men.
There is also a demographic cliff most of the world is currently going off, declining birth rates and labor shortages. Would you rather have a human nurse in your very old age retirement, or a human driver. Because we don’t have enough young people now for both.
There are not labor shortages. Instead we see massive youth unemployment.
So let's poach these people from the third world and...what about the third world? People can't just be made in factories like robots and self driving cars can. It seems inevitable that either we will have really sucky retirements (please die early grandpa, we can't take care of you!) OR (hopefully) automation will come to the rescue despite luddite protests.
Well, the point is that if we reach a point in which a robot can do it better and cheaper, it's no longer useful work.
I personally find that fighting dismissive attitudes is better done by not being dismissive towards other things (or people in this case)
It’s healthier for the discussion culture here as well.
Huh? how can one possibly generalize whatever experience they have not only to one country but to “other countries”, i.e. to the world. I’ve taken taxi in many countries, in all continents, and my experience have been that the drivers are generally helpful. There are scams and bad experience, but that’s minority. That applies to any country, the US included
I think the word "professional" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment.
My experience with taxis has been almost universally negative.
That's a pretty dismissive attitude for ~100 million professional drivers worldwide, making a living doing actual useful work on a forum where the vast majority of users do not do any useful work.