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Posted on 08/17/2014 4:32:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
So the government (illegally) forces businesses to pay a higher minimum wage. Businesses then switch to robots.
Robots don’t get a salary. But robots don’t spend any money either, so, if this continues, there will be robots making hamburgers for other robots.
If McDonald’s pays its workers only $7 an hour, you have to pay the other $45,000 in welfare payments. That’s why McDonald’s is pressing hard to get citizenship for all the illegal aliens they hire. Until we get rid of the welfare state and illegal immigration, any conservative who opposes raising the minimum wage is a sucker.
No, but their owners do, and so do the people who make them. Ultimately, money always ends up in the pocket of a human being, who will spend it. The chain may get longer as some people are replaced by robots, but there's always a human at the end of it.
“The robots can understand 40 everyday sentences.”
If politically correct, that would mean 1 sentence translated into 40 different languages and dialects.
So, by your logic, the higher the better? Should the minimum wage be $50 an hour? $100 an hour?
>>Robots don’t get a salary. But robots don’t spend any money either, so, if this continues, there will be robots making hamburgers for other robots.<<
Only Bender (what ever happened to Bender [1]?)is qualified to comment on this...
If they dream of electric sheep they must eat lubeburgers...
Robots are depreciable assets—another advantage over flesh and blood employees.
>>“The robots can understand 40 everyday sentences.”
If politically correct, that would mean 1 sentence translated into 40 different languages and dialects<<
Or merely exceeds the average liberal’s ability to understand.
>>Robots are depreciable assets—another advantage over flesh and blood employees.<<
You never met my ex-wife.
:)
Just stop paying people not to work.
IOW, when the minimum wage goes up, most of it is "taxed" away (mainly by reduced subsidies). dangus has an interesting take on things -- but, essentially, he's right.
More here:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/01/effective-marginal-tax-rates-for-low-income-workers-are-high
Right there they have a big advantage over a good segment of America's Moocher demographic.
“so, if this continues, there will be robots making hamburgers for other robots.”
I see people in fast food restaurants with EBT cards. Most have a sign saying they take them. So, no jobs, but plenty of welfare. That makes government happy.
I can almost guarantee this is the goal of Agenda 21. The elites want to reduce the world population down to somewhere between 500 million to 2 billion people.
But not necessarily by WWIII. No, the preferred means is to crowd as many as possible into the cities like cattle, unleash some kind of pathogen that quickly gets out of control. Then cut off the water supply and electricity.
Ain't that right, Bill and Melinda?
TV was the perfect medium for that particular message. Not than I'm a Luddite, it's just that "Luddite Thinking" drives people to eliminate the "middle man".
“But robots don’t spend any money either...”
But the people that design and build and repair robots do.
The bigger concern is the competitive effects of raising the minimum wage. If anything, it should be removed entirely.
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