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.
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you want to explain why its better for train drivers to be out of a job?
creative destruction might be better for the system as a whole,
that's different than saying there aren't winners and losers, only winners
the further we go down the wormhole of automating away work, that's a question we shouldn't just blow off
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.
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?