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Originally Posted by kane
I saw Mike Rowe talking the other day about how there are 3 million vocational jobs right now that can't be filled. These are mechanics, plumbers, truck drivers etc. These are all jobs that pay well, but we have a strange education gap right now. When the recession hit people either just went into retail or lower paying jobs or to college. For some reason they stopped going to tech school. Caterpillar Corp will basically blow you to come work for them if you are big equipment mechanic.
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1) How many people does it take to drive 50,000 trucks?
2) How many people does it take to maintain 50,000 trucks?
When the trucks are automated the answer to #1 becomes zero and the answer to #2 becomes a tiny fraction of what it used to be.
Really think we are far away from automating a backhoe so it can dig a ditch in a specific location?
The simpler and less creative the task, the easier it is to automate.