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> At what point do you just have robots deliver packages though?

At the point where it becomes cheaper and more reliable than hiring humans to do the work. Right now, we don't have the technology do the job well and do it under all required conditions, but once that changes we should absolutely replace the human workers with robots so that humans are freed up to focus their efforts on other things.

> Is paying someone the salary of a doctor to carry packages to a house sustainable?

The majority of unionized workers at UPS are only working part time and under the new contract they'll make $21 an hour to start, eventually making $23 an hour. I suspect that doctors tend to make more than that, and if they don't they should probably get themselves a strong union too.




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