[sdfjkl]

Same reason for anyone in that situation: The sooner they learn/do something else, the sooner they can acquire a new useful skillset, instead of dragging on their now useless one. It's not like this is an intermediate problem and if we just subsidize them long enough, there'll suddenly be a need for train drivers again.

[pitt1980]

there is no guarentee that whatever replacement level work any paticular driver will do will be better than their current situation

so how are they better off?