[thackney]

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.

[central_va]

Things that have been automated would still be automated whether minimum wage was .25/hr or $25.00/hour.

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.

[central_va]

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.