“Supporters of the $15 hourly wage claim that few jobs will be lost as result of automation.”
These folks are soooooooooo damn good at predicting the future, aren’t they?
They are of course not predicting the future. They are just expressing denial.
Yes, at the moment, it is probably more personable to order from a person vs a touchscreen. If that’s not redundant. Me, the few times I eat at a McD’s I order a stock whatever. No alterations to catsup or lettuce or mayo or whatever. If I *did* want modifications, it would probably be easier to order from a kiosk.
And besides, this is mostly conditioning, anyway, nothing more and nothing less. You go to a McD’s because what you get when you order is entirely predictable. It’s not because of the human interaction!
It’s certainly not out of the question that ordering kiosks become something of a novelty. As we move into our brave new world of synthetic people doing synthetic things for synthetic money and synthetic fulfillment, many of the largest demographic who frequent McD’s will prefer the kiosks because THAT will will be more “personable” to THEM.
A lot of these "supporters" are union members with contracts indexed to the the minimum wage, and their jobs are not in the fast food industry.