I can see an automated burger joint within ten years....but it’ll have to have at least two guys in the background to ensure things stay running and operational. Zero human workers on a shift? No...it’ll never happen.
My question is....once we prove it works and you can dismiss three-quarters of all the burger flippers in the world...what will they do next? There’s no occupation left for these people.
True, but the two support guys will be well paid...
I agree....some disaffected loser is going to have to be there to spit in the burgers.
Did you think the elites were joking when they mentioned 95% reduction in the population?
Why do you think they are so heavily invested in robotics and AI?
They will form Occupy Carl Jr’s.
Go back to Mexico and Central America?
If that starts happening on a large scale, it will have a twofold effect of collapsing the economy for low-pay workers and all the places they shop (Wal-Mart will take a massive hit) and start a nasty little house-of-cards effect right there. Secondly there will be massive social unrest as entire cities have huge numbers of people and they will rapidly go from merely being angry to being ready to fight for a socialist revolution because they literally have nowhere to go for work and nothing to lose.
The push for automation to try and dodge Obama’s taxes and regulations is the easy (ie; cowardly) way out as opposed to spending the time and money to fight him politically or otherwise. It will also end up biting a lot of the little business monkeys in the butt. You think you’re so clever replacing tens of thousands of humans with robots...tell me then, what’s your brilliant plan to replace all the money the working class spent on your burgers in a month or two?