American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
The other question you need to ask in order to understand this future scenerio:.  Shipping costs will significantly decrease, what will consumers and shareholders spend the extra money on?<p>Who knows what they will spend the extra money on, could be healthcare, boats, TVs, whatever.  But new jobs will be created in these expanded industries.<p>It really, really bothers me the constant &quot;x technology will drive x people out of work, therefore we need Universal Basic Income, so they won&#x27;t starve!&quot;<p>Imagine telling a farmer in 1850s America, when 64% of America farmed, that in 2016 only 2% of people would be farming!  Imagine the distopian horror (1)!  If we had established UBI then, and people could get paid to sit around, imagine the state we&#x27;d be in today.<p>Instead of UBI, people were forced to leave farming and went into other endeavors, leading to the enormous improvement in production, income and standard of living since then.  If 64% of people still farmed, or 2% farmed and 62% were on UBI - who would have had the time or incentive to create computers, software, advances in healthcare, etc?<p>I&#x27;m not claiming the transition is easy for someone who&#x27;s laid off - it can be an extremely tough process, but it&#x27;s absolutely necessary for the improvement of humanity.<p>(1) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1988&#x2F;07&#x2F;20&#x2F;us&#x2F;farm-population-lowest-since-1850-s.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1988&#x2F;07&#x2F;20&#x2F;us&#x2F;farm-population-lowest-...</a>