"Why is this the case? Why are there so few women and young truck drivers? How can we get more of them behind the wheel?"
Well, it's like literally everything else.
Pay more.
Well, it's like literally everything else.
Pay more.
You don't "pay more" to get more young people and women to apply to moving spent nuclear fuel, you give the job to the robots.
If it was true, Youngstown Ohio and Flint Michigan would be jewels of the Midwest - bustling metropolises of highly skilled retrained workers in wondrous utopias. You'd have AI unicorns popping out of Huntington and Wheeling, West Virginia.
Whether you count number of bankruptcies, overall mortality rate, number of offspring, percentage that own versus rent... The fervent assertion that going from a union job to hustling for say Postmates, is somehow the rising tide lifting all boats is baseless.
Doesn't matter though. It's ideologically, not materially based so evidence is irrelevant.
There Are state interventionist ways to make it work. China moved from agrarian to industrial. South Korea, Taiwan Japan.... The difference is they don't have this pentacostal snake handling level blind faith in the free market where they go around like Peter Popof preaching Hayek and Rothbard like it's sacred scripture.