SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.

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      Companies who make alarms clocks should have to pay for all the knocker-upper jobs lost! Automation has been affecting the workforce for centuries, and it isn’t going to stop any time soon.

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        However the effects are becoming increasingly dramatic as more and more of the population finds themselves in an economy with no jobs for them. Eventually UBI will become necessary once we hit the tipping point.

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      I have little trust or faith in modern governments (and even less in corporations), but I would think they are in the perfect position to facilitate retraining programs. In fact it sounds like that’s kind of what the US is doing with the recently announce ‘Climate Corps’ or whatever, a training program to help a certain number of people get employed in targeted industries.