When a high skill, high pay job gets automated to the point where you no longer need high IQ white males to do it, the job doesn't go away, nor does the high pay. Instead it gets crammed full of wahmen and minorities. For flying the autopilot can do almost everything. Almost. Between the vax and this I no longer feel safe flying...
They've been replacing ATC too.
They'll be replacing doctors some time soon. Already they are nothing more than automatons who remember and recite a set of "if symptom A then use treatment B" instructions.
How?
ATC has had shortages for a long time. They've been hiring based on anything but merit.
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