You seem to be qualifying the immediate reality and not the potential. Not having the human beings whose product deliveries can make or break a business that is in the middle of a strike, for example, those deliveries will simply continue automatically. Business will go on undisrupted. Those workers will be dismissed or simply give up, because no one is listening to them. Automated trucking is about the symptoms of Capitalism that have no regard for whom. The best description of this is Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. In the end, everything is running fine on its own. There are administrators, lawyers, politicians living in one affluent area, the others sitting in bars complaining or milling about with nothing to do in another area, and huge machines in another part. The person in charge of the machines finally realizes that one has a job or has to depend on handouts, so he sabotages the machines. I can see it. Most people don’t have what it takes to be system administrators, coders, doctors, and whatever high tech demands those trucks imply. We are moving up the supply chain of human endeavor. Jobs are becoming more inclusive and demanding and the pay is not following suit. I saw one man handling a whole restaurant: Host, bartender, waiter, cashier, and manager. The menu was much less interesting than it had been. I am simply not going back. You can dance those numbers in front of me, but the interconnectedness of employment and it’s demise is about to take place. I walked downtown Oakland last night and felt the poverty. Almost everyone was homeless or a few were probably working for tech, young and beautiful, or else they were disheveled and begging. I don’t believe your numbers either. I see something insidious at work. I believe in what Marx said. People will work harder and faster. Machines will not make people’s lives easier. Instead, those machines will make one or two people richer and put the rest out of business. It is a movement toward monopoly. I heard a woman screaming at her friend: “Fu$k that, I am not working seven days a week!”