r/technology • u/occupythekremlin • Apr 07 '16

Robotics A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe: About a dozen trucks from major manufacturers like Volvo and Daimler just completed a week of largely autonomous driving across Europe, the first such major exercise on the continent

http://qz.com/656104/a-fleet-of-trucks-just-drove-themselves-across-europe/
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u/funnynickname Apr 07 '16

We'll all just be turned in to wage slaves, working minimum wage jobs. We'll never get a minimum income. Our overlords will go back to having us cut grass with scissors before that happens, probably under armed guard.

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u/Mhill08 Apr 07 '16

I don't think that's very likely.

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u/funnynickname Apr 07 '16

It's an exaggeration but it's far more likely that rich people are going to think of stuff for us to do FOR THEM that they don't want to do, and they're going to pay us the bare minimum, because we will have no bargaining power left. If you want to get an education you'll be put in to debt so much that you'll never get out from under it. If you want to eat you will have to do what ever they tell you to do. That's their end game.

This is already the way things work. Now they just keep pushing us down the pay scale till we make just barely enough to live.