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1. LZ_Khan · 1789752523 · focus · HN ↗

   Airline pilots and train conductors are basically meat proxies 95% of the time and they are still employed. Still necessary for when things really go wrong.

   1. daedrdev · 1789752842 · focus · HN ↗

      Train conductors should be automated, we have better things to spend government money on than make work jobs. LIRR pays conductors 200k. It’s theft at that point

      1. kg · 1789753338 · focus · HN ↗

         If screwing up gets me killed I want the person doing that job to be paid well and I want them to be held up to a high performance standard. I don't see how cutting pay for conductors is going to make anyone's lives better.

         Or if we replace that well-compensated train conductor with automation I sure hope it's high quality stuff and not lowest-bidder slop.

         1. ux266478 · 1789756579 · focus · HN ↗

            It's going to make shareholder's lives better. And you better believe we're replacing conductors with lowest-bidder slop, that's the whole point. That's shareholder capitalism's playbook, it hasn't changed for the last 50 years.

            What, you don't want to save a few bucks on a train ticket? Come on, you'll love it!

            1. daedrdev · 1789761959 · focus · HN ↗

               Automated trains have been around for nearly 40 years.

               I want automate trains because they would make running trains more often possible

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