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To: madison10

McDonalds workers will soon be replaced with automation. This will hasten the automation.


5 posted on 02/12/2018 4:58:23 PM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: dforest; freedumb2003
Automation in McDonald's makes sense - the process is already so heavily standardized they just need to make it make financial sense

Instead of cashiers, the touchscreens are cheaper. Next, a machine to put together your burger and fries.

They need to slim down the menu further, but I'm going to guess that by 2020 you will have close to fully automated McDonald's places.

23 posted on 07/17/2018 12:43:59 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: dforest

>>McDonalds workers will soon be replaced with automation. This will hasten the automation.<<

Someone should introduce them to the concept of marginal cost. If a robot costs $12 an hour (all in), then a human is the correct economic choice until the human costs $12 an hour — all things being equal a robot is better.

AFTER that decision makes itself. At $15 a $12 robot becomes cheap.


24 posted on 07/17/2018 4:14:37 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("please pass the winnamins" (/Principled on 6/27/2018))
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