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Bernie Sanders: “Taxi cab drivers, Uber drivers, drivers gone.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Joe Rogan and Bernie Sanders Discuss Economic Inequality, Automation, and Political Corruption

Published | Video Starts at 1:24:38

What do you do with all the drivers? Like think about how many truck drivers in this country. This is going to be the first thing that goes away. You're right. Taxi cab drivers, Uber drivers, drivers gone. And the question about like factory workers, a lot of people say, yeah, well those people, that those jobs are terrible anyway, it'd be great if those jobs went away and people, you know, they, they free to pursue their interests. (1:24:38–1:24:42)

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Asserts that automation will eliminate jobs for taxi cab and Uber drivers.

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