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Oh no. There will be many displaced truckers in the days ahead. Tens of thousands are ex-military. yang2020.com/policies/truck…
If you take a population of 3.5 million truckers, 94% of whom are men, average age 49, tens of thousands of whom are ex-military making average $46,000+ per year, losing their jobs will produce a range of reactions, some of which are likely to be tragic in consequence.
Most of the tragedies will be unreported. Men quietly going home and drinking themselves to death. But occasionally there will be something externalized. Applied across a group of hundreds of thousands you would expect a wide range of outcomes including some that are unthinkable.
Imagining that people are infinitely adaptable is a waste of time. We need to start valuing people intrinsically and provide a path forward such that losing your job is a setback or inconvenience not an existential crisis.
There is a trucking protest scheduled for October 4th on the National Mall in DC about autonomous trucks. Many know what is coming.
