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> don't see how the things he discusses have to do with empathy in Silicon Valley. Driverless trucks, for instance, have nothing to do with empathy and a lot to do with simple economics. Someone is going to build them if they can make a buck doing it, and empathy isn't going to somehow stop that.

The lack of empathy displayed here is exactly the problem. Appealing to economic justifications does nothing to help the communities devastated by automation. So long as they are ignored, or met with a callous response of "get a new job", then a source of anger and resentment will remain and propagate.