Posted on 07/20/2014 9:14:46 AM PDT by jazusamo
The left-leaning tech blog Pando seems to be angry about a lot of aspects of reality.* Witness David Carr flipping out over this billboard that he spotted in San Francisco, “walking home from Pando’s office a few nights ago.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
-— Witness what happened in the grocery stores,,they cut down on the cashiers and installed DIY check out lanes. -—
My wife works at a supermarket. Fraud is rampant, and stores are afraid to prosecute thieves. But this kind of system would be better suited to order placement. We place orders online all the time. The transition should be smooth.
Next you’ll tell me obamatolla will whine about ATMs replacing tellers...
MANDATE a $15 minimum wage in Congress.Call their bluff. If it passes just give it a sunset provision in November 2016.
The good news in the fast food industry is that you’ll probably end up with nobody getting laid off. The turnover rate is very high in that industry, mainly because it’s built around the expectation that most employees will be part-time workers, kids working after school, etc. So a “downsizing through attrition” is very easy to do in fast food.
If you want to piss off a liberal, tell the truth!
I like that. 100% true too!
Wonder how many diseases are spread this way. Certainly hope that they sterilize the screen every night.
This type of argument is what Republicans should have been doing. Instead, they drone about statistics from black and white text and crap.
Automats to return English to ensue.
Better than some well aged hippie chick with an attitude for a waitress.
So if they had 30 waiters before, they are probably down to about 15-20 now.
“We ordered and payed using the touchscreen. It was convenient and fast. We really liked it.”
How much of a tip did you give the screen?
Did you ever wonder if they sterilize the menus?
I just ran $15.00 (2014) through the "Inflation Calculator" to see what it was equivalent to in 1964 when I was a senior in high school, working as a cashier at Kroger's. $1.95
IIRC, I was making $1.25/hr in Macon, GA, not exactly a high wage area.
It would be great if the touchscreen had a call server button and a way to pay the bill. The servers always seem to disappear right when I want a refill or to get the check. I wonder if 15% is still standard for a tip if the server isn't doing as much work as before.
The truth is technology replaces human workers from the bottom up
when then technology price point goes down.. and the human worker doing the same labor price point goes up via minimum wage ..what happens?...
Look ive worked in high tech since 1980..and ive had to retool, reinvent myself 3 or 4 times... the million dollar box of 10 year back that I got payed well to mantain...become something you can buy at the local Frys consumer electronics store today.
I call it being shrink wrapped out of a job.
So if it happens to even the high tech high skilled and well payed.. how are the low tech low skilled going to survive when you artificially make their position well paid..thier not..
There is a logical argument to having a higher minimum wage, but that is not the argument being used by the left; it’s payola.
There’s no point in having any minimum wage debate (other than stopping this BS based on lies) without ceasing the problem that created the wage gap in the first place: Government-based hyperbolic GDP & low-inflation statistics and defective fiscal policies that don’t even use accepted accounting methods.
If the government audited itself with the same ‘vim & vigor’ applied to any private business, it would shut itelf down.
If someone tries to explain that to a liberal, please post the link to the video. I’d love to see their head explode
OH WAIT IT ALL READY HAPPEN!
You all seen those scan yourself check out at the supermarket?..well they didn't even have to raise minimum wage you have those checker replaced.
You know the more I think about this I'm starting to get very cynical about it
because there does seem to be a high correlation between people pushing for minimum wage being raised and the people that make their living in high-tech replacement for low tech workers
I wonder if the people in the Silicon Valley are going to be the scapegoats, since they are responsible for this technology?
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