This is an hilarious example:
Posted on 07/23/2015 5:34:26 AM PDT by Enlightened1
On Wednesday Governor Cuomo’s New York Wage Board set a new minimum wage for New York City’s 200,000 fast food workers. City establishments will now be required to offer employees at least $15 per hour by the end of 2018.
The move also makes it cost effective for companies to fire humans and hire robots.
Momentum Machines has developed a robot that can put out one burger every 10 seconds.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Gee, if only somebody would’ve seen this coming!
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Amazingly, though, gas there is cheaper than California.
Someone has to maintain and program those things,
in order to earn a salary
and pay taxes
which go to the people that the machines replaced
because they demanded more compensation than their labor is worth.
Strange isn’t it how they raise the min wage making it harder and harder for the unskilled to live and work in the cities at the same time Obama is coming up with a grand idea of moving the inner city trash out to the suburbs to live.
Just a coincidence of course.
i’d be willing to be that the machine would make the burger look more like the picture we see in the ads.
Well, yeah. The low-skill union agitators have influenced their low-skill legislators to set wage goals that price their low-skill members right out of the labor market, because their low-skill customers won't pay for service that is so low-skill that from the get-go was not even worthy of tipping.
The drive-by food service chains will either implement a new business model or die. Remember, the Mickey Dee model, new in its beginning, found its footing by replacing the low-skill inefficient home-prepared meal paradigm.
With the pizza-delivery model, the customer doesn't even have to own a car or kitchen.
Outlaw? Naw, just tax.
I had to look that up as I thought you were joking..wow.
I thought they were joking when they hollered at me NO SELF SERVICE!
Wait, what?
Personally I’d prefer an automated ordering system that doesn’t make a mistake every time my family visits McD’s. It doesn’t make sense that their method of taking an order is to have me shout it out over the noisy surroundings to some teenager who usually can’t find the right button to press. Turn the machine around and let me find and press the right buttons! Then let the robotics take care of the rest.
I was wondering what programing language these robots use? I see a good job in the future repairing and maintaining these robots.
Thirty years ago, I worked with an old guy who had worked at the Milk Dud factory back in the 40s. Let's just say that after hearing his stories, I've never eaten another Milk Dud.
Ladder logic is used a lot in control systems. I’ll brush up on it. Thanks.
It’s actually if they had principles, since for places like McDonalds driving up the minimum wage makes sense.
McDs and other large fast food providers can absorb the higher minimum wage, simply by adjusting their business model and by applying economies of scale to buy the massive number of machines that will replace the $15 per hour workers.
It’s the smaller restaurants that can’t easily change their business model or absorb the costs, and which will be driven out of business. Which eliminates McDs and others’ competition.
I was surprised at two things -
first, that ladder logic wasn’t taught in computer science/electrical engineering, though digital logic was.
second, how easy it is to program in LL. Programs seem to “converge” better than in real CS languages.
Jesse Jackson admitted to spitting in Food he served to White People when he was young working in a Restaurant.
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