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Have a hard time imagining that capital owners would rather pay workers to supervise AI than make the courts look the other way when a self-driving truck creates accidents ...
Maybe it could be a single person monitoring 10 autonomous trucks from a remote control center
That would be easier if they attached the trucks to each other.
Oh, and then they could put them on prebuilt tracks to limit and control their intersections with other traffic!
I think you're on to something
Bingo. Simply look to the military for the future. Kids sitting in a comfortable location in California dropping bombs on children overseas.
At some point it probably becomes more valuable to offer jobs that barely keep people alive than it does to deal with the sheer number of unemployed people who are now ready to burn everything down.
Then again, capitalism has never been good at externalities.
I expect a resurgence of jobs like "servant" and "shoe-shiner". You don't need these, either, but this way capitalists can lord their wealth over the masses face-to-face.
Not sure they want that face-to-face with people that far below them. Too easy for any one of them to Luigi.
This is part of the equation that they've proven themselves consistently awful at assessing properly.
There was this guy who did a bunch of interviews with super wealthy people about their apocalypse shelter plans, and he was like "What stops all the poors from killing you and taking your stuff?"
And they're like "Oh, we have ex-Navy SEAL private security details, we're good."
So the guy asks them "What stops the SEALs from killing you and taking your stuff?"
They were stumped. Not a one of them had a good answer. Like, one guy floated having the only password to the vault where all the supplies are kept, as if Navy SEALs don't know how to torture information out of someone. Waterboarding was that guy's best case outcome.
They really, really don't understand that they need us, but we don't need them. And the only thing keeping them alive is that we haven't really figured that out yet either.
Give it a couple generations of malnutrition and genetic damage. Those lower classes will look like toasters and microwaves. Ez to face.
Probably they do both. The paid drivers are a bit of a side-project to get government subsidies for 'job creation' and such.