I&#x27;m sure the transit worker making $50k&#x2F;year to sit in a booth and say &quot;go use the metrocard machine&quot; will get mad if I suggest firing her. That doesn&#x27;t mean it wouldn&#x27;t be the right thing to do for the taxpayer and the MTA customer.<p>I&#x27;m also pretty sure you are deliberately misreading me since you ignored the fact that I cited several countries where wage levels are comparable to the US (e.g., Singapore). Singapore&#x27;s just uses &quot;modern&quot; technology and replaces two $75k&#x2F;year conductors and a $150k&#x2F;year driver with a robot train.<p>(&quot;Modern&quot; = technology that Paris has used in production for 18 years.)