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The political-techno revolution

Nov 9, 2020 J. Kb 10 comments

These two tweets:

https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1325649799006334976

 

The reply is almost giddy about the idea of some billionaire tech mogul and a bunch of Silicon Valley programmers from Berekely and Cal Tech putting truckers out of work.

First of all, the idea of a driverless truck is like the idea of a pilotless plane.  Autopilot systems are fantastic, but nobody would fly a plane without a pilot in the cockpit.  The idea of millions of trucks transporting goods across America, traveling down our highways where people are committing, without a human behind the wheel is not something the public is going to buy.

But forget the for a second.

There are 3.5 million truckers in the US right now.  It is one of the highest paying jobs in America for a person without a college degree.    Independent trucking is one of the fastest-growing small businesses for someone without a college degree.

So in essence, trucking is a way for millions of (predominantly) men to make s good salary (~$60,000/yr) with only a little post-high school education (CDL Training).

You go right ahead and take those jobs away and tell those men that they have been rendered obsolete by a handful of pencil-necked software developers and some megalomaniacal Leftist tech Robber Barron who made billions of dollars putting them out of work and that they deserve it because they supported Trump.

I will give Andrew Yang one thing, he actually tried to consider the people put out of work by technology, even if he did it poorly.  Others on the Left see this as a good thing, where they destroy blue-collar jobs with automation because the blue-collar now support Trump.

I can’t imagine how violent and bloody it will get when millions upon millions of men are made permanently unemployed by tech billionaires and shown only sneering derision by the Left and are told that they deserve it.

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They fed the dragon

Nov 9, 2020 J. Kb 5 comments

And now it has come to eat them

 

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Tropical Storm Eta passing by

Nov 9, 2020 Miguel.GFZ 4 comments

the center of the storm was about 90 miles due South when the video was taken.

We are “enjoying” the dirty side.  It is rotating counter clock wise, so we still have several more hours of rain.

It is a big annoyance because I can’t sleep with the racket that is going on. I literally have rain knocking on my door and windows, not very conductive to a peaceful slumber,

 

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The difference between Oregon and the South

Nov 9, 2020 J. Kb 1 comment

 

You do not mess with a man’s truck in the South.

You just don’t, if you know what is good for you.

 

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And we are in a Hurricane Watch

Nov 8, 2020 Miguel.GFZ 1 comment

Eta has decided to be a naughty girl and become a nuisance. Not worried since all the tracks have her heading for the gulf.

It has been raining pretty much since Friday night. I expect parts of our fair county to have flood issues and the pundits blame it on Climate Change because this never happened before the Industrial age or some other horseshit.

I’ll keep you posted of any developments.

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