From your link
#1 increasing your productivity and profitability
(ie cost and profit)
#2 Save your business money and productivity
(ie cost and profit)
#3 Remove the risk for your staff and save yourself the trouble
(ie cost and profit)
#4 reduce manufacturers operating costs by extending operating hours without additional labour and reducing rework and scrap rates
(ie cost and profit)
#5 perform repetitive tasks with an accuracy and repeatability
(ie cost and profit)
More than doubling minimum wage would have a greater impact than any of these. Change that 35% of total costs by multiplying by nearly 3 and compare that result.
The problem is for manufacturing, the automation being done now is in Asia and not here since we gave them our factories on a silver platter.
If McDonald’s plans on automating some of its processes those plans are going to go ahead whether the minimum wage goes up or down. Those plans are going to go forward.