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The problem is society can’t afford the outcome of paying truck drivers less.

Lower paid, younger, less experienced, more exhausted, and passed off truck drivers are an increased danger to other drivers.

That is an externality, to say it’s just life is pretty much saying it’s acceptable to underpay people as longing as the only risk is to others…



Yeah I think it’s ridiculous that people forget that we only got to this point because previous generations built a framework which we currently live in and where many of us can prosper.

If we want to abandon that and go back to the centuries of fiefdom where we barely made progress, by all means do it somewhere else.


Corporations willing to hollow out the foundation of society is their fault, not people who get told to “find a better laying job”

If your job is essential to the functio of society you should

1) have a living wage

2) have a group advocating and bargaining in Your interests

3) have a say in the corporate management

Essential employees are essential to society, not to corporations. Society (I.e., government) should assure they are treated in a functional way




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