The hidden worries of the prosperous era spread quietly and without a trace.

The first thing that caught the eye was the decline in low- and middle-end jobs in the manufacturing sector. Before December 2009, Wuping District of Panyang City was full of job opportunities, and young and strong laborers from various counties, cities and provinces in the southeast and northwest came to Panyang City with a train ticket or a bus ticket, and they could enter the factory for physical examination on the same day; After December 2009, the young and strong labor force was depressed to find that the recruitment points that had been everywhere suddenly disappeared, and even if they came to the human resources market in Panyang City, the demand for grassroots jobs without threshold restrictions was also significantly reduced.

Migrant workers who came to Panyang City for the first time were depressed and found that it was difficult to find a job; In-service grassroots employees also panicked to find that the threshold for work is getting higher and higher.

Winter is coming!

Certain occupations that are directly affected are particularly sensitive.

For example, the impact of unmanned driving on logistics truck drivers.

Brother Ji Susu sincerely hopes that Zhuwei Group can continue its previous glory, because in addition to the salary is higher than the industry average, Zhuwei Group's comprehensive employee benefits are at the forefront of the country. As a veteran soldier with a high school education, it is difficult for Ji Susu's brother to find a better job, and compared with the average income of various provinces and cities in China, he is very satisfied with the pre-tax monthly salary of 5,958 yuan. If possible, Ji Susu's brother hopes to work in Zhuwei Group until retirement.

Unfortunately, the development of the times does not shift by personal will, and logistics truck drivers have gradually become a sunset profession.

In other words, Zhuwei Group launched unmanned driving research in early 2006, and then there was little movement in 2006 and 2007, and this research seems to have no sense of existence.

After the economic crisis in 2008, the Spring and Autumn period companies took advantage of the situation to expand vigorously, and Wei Dongsheng walked in the south of Aoyuqiao to witness the integration of the automobile manufacturing field during the 4 trillion plan, becoming a part of the national "Automobile Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan". In February 2009, before Huaguo Nanfang Automobile changed its name to Huaguo Changan Automobile Group, Chunqiu Group, Zhuwei Group, Zhiyu Group and Zhixing Group, together with the local government of Panyang City, acquired and reorganized a number of fixed assets of Huaguo Southern Automobile and established Panyang Automobile Group as a joint venture.

The first project after the reorganization of Panyang Automobile Group was the research and development of driverless trucks, and the research of unmanned driving was raised to a strategic high position, and suddenly broke into the field of vision of the people of Panyang City. At the beginning of the year, the Panyang Municipal Government fully cooperated with the unmanned truck project of Panyang Automobile Group, and considering that the complex road conflict between unmanned driving and normal driving could not be solved in a short period of time, the infrastructure of the industrial manufacturing park fully added a special driverless lane. In the new streets of the industrial manufacturing park, driverless lanes prohibit natural persons from driving and pedestrians from crossing, and driverless trucks automatically shuttle between affiliated enterprises.

At first, Ji Susu's brother and other old drivers took unmanned driving as a joke, laughing at the complex road conditions, how can a few chips handle it?

However, unmanned driving is the trend of the times.

Month after month, the driverless trucks developed by Panyang Automobile are becoming more and more mature; And as time passed, Brother Ji Susu's smile became less and less. There is still a need for logistics truck drivers, but the number of required trucks is destined to be significantly reduced in the future. Especially for short-distance logistics in customs bonded areas and other places, more and more logistics truck driver positions are assigned to driverless trucks, and old drivers like Ji Susu's brother are gradually driven to long-distance business.

The long-distance truck business is a shortcoming of unmanned driving, because there is no driverless passage on the highway along the way, and the current national policy does not allow driverless trucks to mix and match with natural person-driven cars at will. In a short period of time, unmanned driving cannot replace logistics truck drivers, and Brother Ji Susu does not have to worry about unemployment, but what about the future?

What about five years from now?

Ten years from now?

Seeing the picture of the driverless truck walking in the driverless lane in an orderly manner, Ji Susu's brother couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and seriously doubted how long the job of a logistics truck driver could last.

Smart factories and driverless trucks don't eliminate jobs across the board, they create new jobs while eliminating some low-end jobs. The problem is that the threshold for new jobs is high, and at least primary school dropouts cannot work on the same day as they have a medical examination. Just as the new jobs created by the steam engine technology revolution and the electrical technology revolution have new requirements for employees, the employees needed by intelligent factories and driverless trucks are also "high-quality" employees who can adapt to the new era.

Ji Susu's brother has a mid-life crisis, although he feels that the pace of the times is urging people forward, but he doesn't know how to adapt to the new era.

Ji Susu is the pride of the family.

Ji Susu's brother and sister-in-law don't understand what Ji Susu is busy with, but they can follow the laws of the market economy and measure Ji Susu's value with money. In 2010, the new standard work treatment, Ji Susu's monthly salary before tax was 25,000 yuan, and there was a year-end bonus of six months of basic salary, with a total annual salary of about 364,000 yuan before tax. After Ji Susu's brother was discharged from the army, he struggled in the society for many years, and only then did he get a job of 5,958 yuan before tax by virtue of his skills and Ji Susu's connections; On the other hand, Ji Susu, who has just graduated for half a year, has received an annual salary that is more than five times that of her brother.

In the eyes of Ji Susu's brother, Ji Susu's sister-in-law, Ji's father, Ji's mother and other family members, Ji Susu is a carp that jumps over the dragon gate and a phoenix that flies out of the chicken nest. Social value and social status quietly offset the age defect, Ji Susu's brother felt confused about the future, and first subconsciously asked his sister for help: "Susu, what do you think of the prospect of the driverless truck jointly engaged in by the Spring and Autumn Search and Panyang Automobile?" Are logistics truck drivers about to be eliminated by unmanned driving? ”

Ji Susu is busy with the brain-computer interface project and does not know the progress of unmanned driving research.

However, Ji Susu did not have the word mechanical death. Ji Susu knows the limitations of her parents' and brother's vision, just like people often misunderstand that programmers must be good at repairing computers, no matter how long-winded she is, it is difficult for her to explain to her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law the industry barriers between brain-computer interfaces and unmanned driving