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Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR

Posted by lirr42 on Mon Apr 9 18:57:27 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 9 18:11:22 2018.

The idea that automation eliminates aggregate jobs is called the luddite fallacy. The history of the industrial revolution is the history of increased automation, and yet a continually increasing population has been accommodated with more and more jobs through increased productivity: By making production more efficient, more production can be accommodated and thus there are more of the remaining jobs.

The disadvantage is that the remaining jobs may be more unpleasant than those that replace them. They may also be unavailable to those whose jobs were replaced due to inadequate skill level.

Regardless, I stand by my previous assessment that it is not the place of the MTA to accommodate people displaced by economic change and that the MTA's mission is best accommodated by embracing economic change instead of functioning as a make-work program.