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I feel like I am on a different planet from people who worry about individuals losing their jobs with transit automation. Doesn’t it almost always happen through attrition? Chicago going down to OPTO on the L, Paris automating the Métro – did anybody lose their job?

That of course depends on the timeline. For accelerationists that timeline cannot be short enough so as to make for maximal suffering. Of course it goes without saying that AV tech is not ready for prime time. As implemented it exists as a marketing gimmick supported by operators abroad.

Presumably every time an internal automated airport train system opens, the 30 shuttle bus drivers are fired. But they're probably contractors so not tracked in any meaningful way.

But the bigger threat to transit jobs are people riding transit less because private AVs are more convenient

I thought you were being facetious by citing the CTA. That's literally what they did. They converted the conductors to "platform attendants" when it turned out OPTO didn't quite work like they thought, then effectively fired them once cameras were installed. www.chicagotribune.com/1997/10/23/r...

Source on the “effectively fired” thing?

Hey, this is your assertion and I'm not sure why I need to provide sources. But out of the goodness of my heart: By 2004 they were considered non-operating personnel and able to be eliminated as cameras came online. www.chicagotribune.com/2004/10/19/c... www.transitchicago.com/cta-enhances...