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#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Landscape of Human Pain and Suffering

Economics is not good at measuring the landscape of human pain and suffering, he says. "I think that's what I suppose sociology is better at doing" Truckers are a job of last resort for people who have already lost their manufacturing jobs or construction jobs to aging. The trucking industry uses multiple trailers in order to move freight more efficiently than one person could do it alone.

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