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Dear Striking Fast-Food Workers: Meet The Machine That Just Put You Out Of A Job
Zero Hedge ^ | 11/10/2015 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 11/10/2015 9:05:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/10/2015 9:05:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The rule of unintended consequences just jumped up and bit a bunch of people in the ....


2 posted on 11/10/2015 9:09:45 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: SeekAndFind

This cannot be good for obamanomics. Seems fast food jobs were about the only kind of jobs the Obama/Yellen economy could produce.

If these jobs are replaced by machines, I won’t miss the attitude of so many fast food employees.


3 posted on 11/10/2015 9:10:06 AM PST by boycott
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Three other advantages of the machines:

1. It won't spit on your burger
2. It'll save money by not needing latex gloves and hair nets
3. It doesn't text while working..

4 posted on 11/10/2015 9:11:21 AM PST by ken5050 (Jim DeMint for Speaker)
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5 posted on 11/10/2015 9:11:35 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Farmer Dean

I think much of the food service industry was just waiting for the social push needed to make this happen.


6 posted on 11/10/2015 9:12:04 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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How about:

4. I don’t have to worry about whether or not the food prepper washed their hands after they used the facilities.


7 posted on 11/10/2015 9:12:47 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bring them in. Most of these places have been taking the fast out of fast food for many years.


8 posted on 11/10/2015 9:12:49 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: SeekAndFind
To quote Spongebob Squarepants: "Where's the love?"

Regards,

9 posted on 11/10/2015 9:15:50 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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The author overlooks one thing. Liberal states like California will simply make Momentum Machines illegal.

They might do it for (bogus) “food safety” reasons. Or they might do it for “social justice” reasons. Whatever.

As a side story, I remember when self-service gas stations first started appearing in my area. Some politicians tried to ban them on the grounds that they were unsafe.

10 posted on 11/10/2015 9:17:54 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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They are giving you a lot more than attitude with those meals served.


11 posted on 11/10/2015 9:18:25 AM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men (people) to come o he aid of their coutry!)
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the restaurant that uses our robots can expand their frontiers of production which requires hiring more people

Translation please.

12 posted on 11/10/2015 9:20:11 AM PST by Moltke
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Who keeps the machines fed with ingredients?

Fewer people, obviously, but they will still want $15/hour.

13 posted on 11/10/2015 9:21:46 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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But will robots clean the food making machines or will no skilled workers still be in charge of that task? We all know how toxic the ice machines are.


14 posted on 11/10/2015 9:22:11 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeekAndFind

And Obama thought ATMs were bad for employment. If he really cared he would be doing something. He doesn’t.


15 posted on 11/10/2015 9:22:31 AM PST by Vic S
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Do those work if you use gloves? No way I'm touching one of those covered with greasy, grimy fingerprints of McDonalds customers.

16 posted on 11/10/2015 9:23:39 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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17 posted on 11/10/2015 9:25:13 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: gorush

LOL!


18 posted on 11/10/2015 9:26:32 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just wait until McDonalds partners up with some chicom automation firm to crank out thousands of fully automated fast food restuarants.

They’ll get the illegals to install the equipment, and the H1B imports to operate and maintain them.

And all of the other restuarants will have to follow suit if they want to survive.

Of course, with a huge block of former fast food workers now dumped on the welfare rolls, the new fast food restuarants will have to virtually give away fed subsidized happy meals to their former employees and suppliers.

Oh! Did I forget the supplier chain in this deal?

All of the farmers, processors, truckers, bankers, inspectors, and all of their infrastructure get the boot too, because NONE of you can compete against cheap foreign labor, period.

But you can be rest assured that the shareholders and funds managers will make a nice profit next quarter, and can just dump their former human baggage off on the government to take care of.


19 posted on 11/10/2015 9:28:06 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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“cost US taxpayers” but not corporations. Don’t eat them.


20 posted on 11/10/2015 9:28:28 AM PST by huldah1776
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