Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
Tech Company Develops Robots to Replace $15 /Hr Workers – Can Produce 1 Burger Every 10 Seconds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3315561/posts
In small town America, the factories have left and all there is for employment are fast foods and mini-marts.
Yet the ‘benefactors’ of this don’t realize what is happening to them.
I used to tell the clerk when they say - swipe your own card - that they should realize that in due time the swipe your own card will replace YOU, the clerk.
Obligatory dumb look and eye roll is then noted.
I have had grocery store clerks ‘complain’ about 3 or 4 people in their line while the auto check out is empty.
I told her that if the auto checks stay full, chances are she will get sent home..so rather than ‘complain’ about me being there, she should individually thank anyone in her line.
Oh yes, dumb look and eye roll followed.
Sheetz Service Stations has had auto clerks for a long time, with maybe one or two people making the sandwiches BUT the customer doesn’t talk to them (well they won’t answer) the touch screen even has light mayo or such on it so no excuse to talk to the clerk -
Which also ‘allows’ them to hire people regardless of what language they communicate in.....
Great! We don’t have to pay the robots $60,000/year in benefits like free schooling, free obamacare, free lawyers, free childcare, free foodstamps. McDonald’s can buy those robots instead of lobbying Congress to let another 33 million uneducated, non-English-speaking, unskilled laborers into the country.