Posted on 06/06/2018 2:50:08 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Everybody has the right to a living wage. It's the responsibility of employers to pay their workers enough to live on comfortably, no matter what sort of work they do. No matter what it costs. No matter how much or how little value an individual employee provides. A job is a human right, and if you pay your employees anything less than a designated amount -- an amount that is not, and will never be, designated by you -- then you're a fascist and you'll be shamed and slandered and picketed until you comply. F*** your laws of economics, you Nazis! This is social justice we're talking about. Profit is bad. Capitalism is evil. If the system can't be destroyed without personally inconveniencing me as I tweet about it on my iPhone, then at least it should be controlled by the government. And if that means putting a few money-grubbers out of business... serves 'em right.
Or at least that's what the #FightFor15 movement keeps telling us. That's what today's Democrats are all about. They think you should make at least $15 an hour for pushing icons on a cash register and glaring resentfully at customers who keep interrupting your important conversation about Kanye.
And this is what #FightFor15's diligent efforts have wrought. Sarah Whitten, CNBC:
McDonald's has been systematically adding self-service ordering kiosks and table service to stores as it works to "build a better McDonald's..." In fact, the company plans to upgrade 1,000 stores with this technology every quarter for the next eight to nine quarters... International markets like Canada, Australia and the U.K. are already fully integrated with kiosk service and mobile ordering. Locations in France and Germany, too, are almost completely transformed with this new technology. By 2020, every single McDonald's location in the U.S. will have ordering kiosks. Then someone will need to build a machine to dry the tears of minimum wage activists.
Technology is about finding ways to get things done with as little human intervention or effort as possible. That's how millions of people get their daily news without thousands of town criers yelling it at them in the town square. That's how you can have a conversation in real time with a friend (or enemy!) halfway around the world. That's how you can travel from one end of America to the other in days or even hours, instead of months or even years. That's how you can watch almost any movie or TV show you can think of, instantly, without having to be kind or rewind.
That's how you're reading this right now.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to go back to living in caves. I don't want to be forced to fight for survival every day of my life. I don't want to go potty outside. I don't want to wash my clothes by scraping them with rocks in a river. I don't want my entertainment options to be limited to campfire tales and public executions. I don't want to go back to those days. Humanity has been there and done that. For all its faults, I'm a big fan of civilization.
It's like that old joke:
What did socialists use before candles?
Electricity.
I, for one, welcome our new fast-food-robot overlords. I'm glad they're taking our orders, and flipping our burgers, and telling us to have a nice day, and doing any other job that humans either don't want to do or don't want to pay other humans to do. I eagerly await the coming culinary utopia where I can obtain a delicious, freshly cooked meal without ever having to deal with another human being.
Now, what the hell is my McDonald's password? I've got so many, I can't remember them all...
McRobots, UNIONIZE!
Already happening at Sam’s Club too. Now if they could just get the person to push their button and let you know your order is ready life would be better.
Automate the food prep and another job might get done right...
Unmentioned bonus: Robots can’t spit in your food.
Can someone explain the “table service” issue. Are kiosks delivering food????
Socialists have already moved on from $15 an hour to a guaranteed minimum income for doing nothing. McDonalds would be OK with that, their former employees can get a check from the government, point to what they want on a kiosk, and get their food, and McDonalds can be more profitable without their employees.
They'll just make the food a lot greasier.
I was reading a thread on sex robots and now Mc Robots.
I should have paid more attention when learning BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programing!.
I want to be a hacker!
Well, here’s the thing about the laws of economics. Abide by them, or suffer really nasty bites in the gluteus maximus, some of which shall never heal.
Stupidity is the only crime in the Universe that is invariably punished. If not immediately, then the consequences compound until there is no possible escape from the ultimate punishment, which is extinction.
LOL! It’s McDonald’s ... how can you tell?
Around here, most of the food purchased at the McDonalds comes at the drive-through. Out of a dozen people working behind the counter, maybe two are at registers. I think it is not that big a deal ... yet.
A “job”, is a task - either one-time, or continuous - that a business need to have done, and they will pay $X to have that job done, that’s what it’s worth to them.
It is NOT their business to make sure anyone has a “living wage”...they offer the job, tell folks what it pays, and accepting the job is up to the applicant.
If it’s not enough, then do like I did when I was young, get a SECOND job. It won’t kill you and you’ll end up with that “living wage” you seem to love so much.
Go back to school/training, and learn a trade that DOES pay your “living wage”.
It’s really a simple formula.
I have tried using the self order at McDonalds and it’s not user friendly. I gave up and I just order at the cash register.
Most robots use ladder logic not basic. However, if you can learn basic you can learn ladder logic programming.
But suggest here at FR that the same laws of economics which apply to jobs in a burger joint should apply to jobs in a steel mill, and watch the heads e*x*p*l*o*d*e!
To my my this is less about what’s being done than how fast. The automation would’ve occurred anyway, but without government screwing with labor costs, hiking them arbitrarily, the dislocation wouldn’t be as abrupt and painful.
the new ordering kiosks - I witnessed so many customers having so much trouble to order they had to have an employee assisting them constantly. The systems had serious useability problems.
Things as simple as a cup of water could not be found on the menu system (a health code issue/requirement no doubt).
I’ve tested software devices and machines professionally for decades - those systems I would grade a “D” (who the heck does McD have testing these things BEFORE they even go to customer use — low bid dimbulbs — both the sub-contractor AND the McD management for pushing these deficient things out.
Incompetent.
Yes, I applaud pushing off the work on to the customer. Make them collate the order or better yet scan in everything and bag it themselves! Now if we could only get the customers to stock the shelves and cook their own burgers and keep the place clean. Such a great idea! /sarc
Why is that?
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