Self driving planes move cargo (food, mostly) from the southern hemisphere to the northern. That has financial consequences. Fresh tropical food becomes much cheaper. LNG drones take LNG from stranded resource areas like Nigeria to downtown London.
Internal consequences are equivalent to turning back the clock a hundred years, to when children ran free in much of the OECD because we had trams that would take children long distances quite cheaply.
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]]>Hey, Stross, why not a separate thread on parasite occupations?
There are some very specialized occupational professions out there, commensal, symbiotic, and parasitic. Extra points for one that's all three.
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