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Germany: towards 32 hour week - "It represents a fairer distribution of the wealth created by productivity gains in the industry created by the workers" (www.industriall-union.org)

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"For far too long, the lion's share of the benefits from our increased efficiency has gone to the top, sidelining those who are at the very heart of this production. It's time to level the playing field, ensuring that our workers directly benefit from these advancements by offering them improved working conditions and an enhanced quality of life."

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the number of companies putting huge amounts of money towards towards fully robotizing distribution fleets (Walmart made a great deal about it), truckers may be facing extinction.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been working on it a long time and had very little progress.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I believe you but the intention exists already.

Meanwhile, there are car manufacturers aiming at building fully eletric long haul vehicles, completely autonomous.

Mercedes has already had fully successful try outs with robotized city buses that actually worked; drivers were placed on the vehicles just for passengers mental comfort but it was the machine doing all the work. I can't recall why the program was shutdown but it was considered nonetheless a huge advancement.

If enough money is put into the challenge, self driving trucks will be a thing and truckers a non-thing, faster than we can expect.