[stepanhruda]

“Creating jobs” only makes sense if funding those jobs provide actual value that wouldn’t exist otherwise. You can “create jobs” by making people dig holes and fill them up, but you’re just wasting your population’s productive time - you would be better off by just giving those people money for nothing, some of them might just do something useful in the newly created free time.

I’d argue that pumping gas overall provides very low value.

[WeylandYutani]

One good thing about declining birth rates is that you can't waste people on bullshit jobs.

Fully automated gas stations has been a thing in my country for thirty years. And they can be up to 20 cents cheaper so it was adopted by consumers very quickly.

[vxNsr]

Fully automated as in you drive up and it “plugs-in” to your car itself? Or just self service?

[WeylandYutani]

Self service without a shop- no cash only cards.