Jason Calacanis

You know, should we slow it down or could we slow it down?

There actually have been some discussions about ways to do this.

One of them would be, hey, with self-driving, people are scared that all these cab drivers are going to lose their jobs.

Uber drivers, cab drivers, bus drivers, truck drivers.

This is, you know, over 10 million people in the United States driving things for a living.

Would you be in favor of some of the announcements that that will be a paced rollout?

It won't happen all at once.

In other words, those people will be given some amount of job security to stay behind the wheel with it.

Another example that's been given is if you put Optimus into Amazon factories or the figure robot just did like a week of just sorting packages.

I'm sure everybody saw that video inserted here.

that figure robots or anything.

Hey, if Amazon deploys those, there'll be a tax on those per hour and we'll tax humanoid robots in some ways and then use that for, say, retraining people.

Those are two very specific conditions and approaches that people have been promoting.

Do either of those resonate with you in any way?

I think it's interesting that in all of those discussions, I've yet to see an actual survey of only the truck drivers and only the package sorters.

Hmm.

The question that I would have is, do the people that do these jobs want these jobs?

And if they do, then there's a reasonable claim to make to keep those jobs the way that they are.

If you're saying, this is the job that I do, I love it, I'm able to provide for my family, great.

That's a very different argument than, well, you know what?