Posted on 02/28/2020 10:44:06 AM PST by Red Badger
I remember that book. The really poor people had to golf constantly or walk and tear up shoes, consuming constantly, while the wealthy people could literally do nothing.
I think I missed something. Does it cost $3 an hour to operate this robot? A robot doesn’t get a paycheck. Are they amortizing various costs of operation to come up with a $3 per hour cost?
A leisure world for artists everywhere.
Those cars look 1972ish.
That’s a pretty cool way of covering up a SCARA arm!
Indeed. Burger Chef was at its peak back then.
People still worked, even though automation was everywhere. But it wasn’t necessary to live, only if you wanted more than the basics. It was Robert Heinlein’s FIRST novel. It was rejected by two publishing houses and was never published. It was ‘lost’ until AFTER his death and was published in 2003........
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/10/arts/heinlein-s-prophetic-first-novel-lost-and-found.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Us,_The_Living:_A_Comedy_of_Customs
I imagine that they use all sealed bearings in those things. No lubrication is added during maintenance, the bearings just wear out and get replaced.
“They will learn to code or stay in their home countries...............…”
I have been to Caribbean countries and Mexico. Being on welfare here is better than being anyplace I visited. (I was on one island in an area with no running water and no indoor toilets.) The only thing keeping most of them home is they are too lazy, stoned or stupid to find and walk across the border. What they need is a bunch of man-bun wearing, tattooed activists to pick them up and lead them by the hand. I saw a bunch of those in Mexico.
The there is 7% social security, then there is health insurance, then there is workers comp to fund all the “disabled” workers claims and then there is unemployment insurance.
Easy $20-25.000 per hour cost to employer with all overhead
Ah, $15.00 is just the ante.
The there is 7% social security, then there is health insurance, then there is workers comp to fund all the “disabled” workers claims and then there is unemployment insurance.
Easy $20-25.000 per hour cost to employer with all overhead
Yep, someone should ask Chuck Todd if his ‘reap what you sow’ line applies here for all the progs pushing higher and higher minimum wages.
In 1972?....................
Sounds like my Air Force career from 1977-1981.
True we shouldn’t discourage them. But they can cause labor dislocations, and those can be severe and persist for some time. So how we address those is important.
“Well, yeah, next time we go to Waffle House!”
where “coronavirus free” doesn’t mean what you might think it does ...
And he doesn’t spread Coronavirus to it’s customers.
Maybe they can be trained to give female legals abortions?
I was sexually harassed by the robot!
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