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argues that trucking jobs are

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 04:15:38 +0000

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argues that trucking jobs are actually dystopian nightmares-

“Long-haul truckers are some of the most closely monitored workers in the world. Once, he was forced to sleep in freezing temps for days because an automated system turned off his engine at night. The company said there was no way to override the system.” https://t.co/3GGYFARbAL
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) March 15, 2022

“While we often think of automation and AI as developments that will eventually replace workers, those tools are already in heavy use in workplaces. And they haven’t replaced workers; they’ve simply been brought in to manage declining working conditions.” https://t.co/3GGYFARbAL
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) March 15, 2022

“For decades, truckers have quit at alarming rates, leading to a chronic shortage. The turnover rate was at a staggering 91 percent in 2019, which means that for every 100 people who signed up to drive, 91 walked out the door.” https://t.co/3GGYFARbAL
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) March 15, 2022

“There used to be only three ways you got a trucking job. Someone retired, was killed on the job, or died.” Few quit. I asked Mr. Fritts how he landed his position and he said he simply received a call one day in 1969, “Scotty just got killed.” https://t.co/3GGYFARbAL
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) March 15, 2022

“Before deregulation, trucking was an industry with high union representation. Fears of inflation pushed government to allow less regulated, nonunionized firms to compete. That effectively took bottom out of labor market. Working conditions and pay cratered, and truckers fled.”
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) March 15, 2022

“In some ways the story of a trucker rebellion in reaction to a government mandate is odd because truckers are already highly monitored and regulated. Just to get a job interview, Mr Knope told me, he had to submit to a blood pressure test and urinalysis.” https://t.co/3GGYFARbAL
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) March 15, 2022

“Freight haulers draw rookie drivers by promising to get them licensed. The obligation that follows, one lawyer says, amounts to indentured servitude.” https://t.co/Lv1O69ggTt
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) April 6, 2022

Am I missing something or did he not mention Neil Gorsuch ruling about the frozen trucker case? https://t.co/Tg5jzCqtNO
— Josh (@jr_foust) March 15, 2022

No mention. Agree, quite relevant.
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) March 15, 2022

Automated trucks could cost

artappraiser — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 06:21:41 +0000

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Automated trucks could cost 500,000 US jobs, researchers say https://t.co/t9ciEHBWtQ via @ZDNet
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@_DrFrusci) March 22, 2022

Trump failed China trade war

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:58:41 +0000

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Trump failed China trade war

Biden was not to blame, as China was never on pace.

June 2020: only 54% of pro-rated targets
December 2020: 59%

Jan 2021: Biden arrives, but the deal was back-loaded!!! (Additional commitments for 2021 were more than 60% HIGHER than for 2020.)

China would never catch up.

2/13 pic.twitter.com/NvIo19UHhy
— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) February 8, 2022

It's worth saying that a

Orion — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:09:50 +0000

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It's worth saying that a whole lot of sports websites have "news stories" up that are little more than a regurgitation of whatever Jim Cornett or Joe Rogan said in a podcast, followed by a link to the podcast. So milking a press release doesn't seem like a huge deal. That's just me though.

I really appreciate this

Orion — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:08:22 +0000

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I really appreciate this feedback. I didn't really understand what was wrong with what I wrote but I really do see your perspective here. I did wonder if it was too much like the Biden press release. Nevertheless this post got over 1000 views, when posted here, so ....

Yeah, it was hard to know

Orion — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:01:31 +0000

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Yeah, it was hard to know what to say about a policy that hasn't actually been implemented. It seems like the Roosevelt policy but who knows if it would be like it?

I will be blunt and say the

Orion — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:57:31 +0000

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I will be blunt and say the editor seemed old, suspicious and miserable. Also, I think he didn't want to touch the subject of out of work men. I think it's a bit obvious that this policy is aimed at enlisting out of work men, though. The language in both the press release and the New York Times article even seems to suggest it.

Previous generations generally only saw so many "great men" because society and the government forced them to work critical jobs. An information dependent economy prefers women or effiminate men as they seem less threatening and that situation sort of reinforces itself because out of work men end up in situations where they have to seem threatening to survive.

currently in Canada I see

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 07:26:28 +0000

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currently in Canada I see this is going on #TruckersForFreedom2022

one of quite a few tweets for an example of how the libertarian trucker ethos is still playing up there

Canada in REVOLT

HUGE convoy of 50K Canadian trucks & 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE headed to Ottawa to camp outside Parliament until Trudeau resigns over his COVID TYRANNY#TruckersForFreedom2022

Drone footage from Dryden, ON. via @BezirganMocha @RebelNewsOnline pic.twitter.com/nqYPMDBx7b
— Maajid أ (@MaajidNawaz) January 27, 2022

and this one's quite something:

Peace, love, unity. Take it back The world is watching. #TruckersForFreedom2022 pic.twitter.com/Kxws9N9hMq
— Lisa (@kahnkidz) January 27, 2022

I am reminded by the topic

artappraiser — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 19:05:45 +0000

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I am reminded by the topic that because of Brexit, the trucking industry across the pond has a lot more problems to deal with than they do in the U.S.:

No one warned me that my defining policy was an insane, vicious attack on the UK - trashing its constitutional order, its security, prosperity & well-being - a national betrayal for which I will go down in history as a malevolent, disastrous failure. And quite possibly to prison. pic.twitter.com/MFuAkqsz4S
— Andrew Levi (@AndrewPRLevi) January 21, 2022

As far as publishing it, the

artappraiser — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:56:22 +0000

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As far as publishing it, the problem is that the "article" you pasted reads as a messy mishmosh rehash of what press releases said. (Kind of like when in 6th grade when the teacher would have you write for the P.R. office of a state and then you'd get it in the mail and read it and write a "paper" on what you read.)

The White House Fact Sheet, for example, is far clearer and easier to read.

Why would anyone want to publish it if the White House Fact Sheet/press release is right there, available free of charge?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/16/fact-sheet-the-biden-%E2%81%A0harris-administration-trucking-action-plan-to-strengthen-americas-trucking-workforce/

Simply adding the reference to Roosevelt maybe makes the policy more palatable to socialist types I guess. But the comparison is not that accurate and anyone sophisticated would not buy it.

Policy-wise I see nothing wrong with it, they are trying to clean up issues that I have seen truckers quit over or complain about (in far better written articles) to make the job/career more palatable to more people. But right now the trend overall as far as "essential worker" type jobs is "take this job and shove it", not a desperate unemployment situation like the Great Depression. That may be temporary because of Covid but it will take time for people to care about working again.