Just at McDonalds alone, I’ll predict that a quarter of all positions are automated within five years. If some idiot was thinking a life-long position with McDonalds....they are screwed.
And yet McDonalds used people in India to answer drive through orders rather than automating that
On a road trip this past weekend I grabbed coffee at McDonald’s twice.
Both had kiosks, but I didn’t use either. You could see the smears from countless other customers.
At the second location, a worker cleaning the soda fountain saw me waiting in line and told me to use the kiosk. “Don’t be afraid, it’s easy to use.”
“I’m not afraid of anything but the germs on it” was my reply.
There will be a political revolution before these numbers ever come to pass.
Socialist? Communist? Violent Luddites? Who knows.
All I know is that a large swath of the populace is not going to stand by and allow automation to throw them into poverty.