Posted on 03/01/2020 7:50:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
$2000.00 a month rent... and $3.00 an hour... The restaurant would have to run flippy for 666 hours a month for it to work out to that.
replacing everyone with robot’s means less people that can afford hamburgers so the price will drop accordingly. The savings from labor will be passed on to the remaining consumers.
Maths is hard.
This has to be an exaggeration or I would have been working there......$120K per year
Where’s Bender? He show ‘em how it’s done.
The illegal can get a $3.00/hour job in many places in this country. The problem lies with HOW FAR with that $3.00/hour job get him?
If he lives in New York, the West Coast big cities or Chicago...he is DOOMED. He best work in Puckerbrush, Iowa, where he can do LOTS with $3.00/hour.
He sends home most of his money anyway and where HE'S from the Yankee $$ goes much farther.
So he will continue to enter this country ILLEGALLY and get what money he can. He has little to lose.
If illegals were PUNISHED for breaking the law then there would be FAR FEWER of them here.
The big problems then would be that families would have to:
take care of their own babies, children,
clean their own homes,
wash their own cars or take them through the auto car wash,
cook their own meals,
wash their own dishes or put them in the dishwasher AND THEN have to put them away,
make their own children lunches for school,
do their own laundry,
do their own grocery shopping,
mow their own lawns/take care of their own yards,
drive and pick up their own children to and from school,
do their own ironing,
do their own mending,
get gas for all their cars,
take in their cars for service,
get their dry cleaning taken in and picked up,
get their computers serviced/repaired,
my gawd, they'd have to EVEN sharpen their own pencils using, of course, the automatic pencil sharpener...and don't tell me that people don't use pencils anymore since EVERYONE on the planet mis-writes on occasion.
The list goes on and on. How can we BEAR to do all this MENIAL labor??? LET THE ILLEGALS STAY--- PLEASE!
No, arithmetic is hard.
Math is IMPOSSIBLE.
In some instances, this would be handy and practical.
Most the time, I like seeing the people behind the counter.
Our brief conversation adds to the experience of eating out.
Eventually, some restaurants and other retail businesses may realize the value of face to face commerce vs 100% button pushing.
Maintenance is not included here, is it?
The robot might be $10,0000 but that maintenance program will be at least that and probably triple that.
That robot will also need an expensive human supervisor. Those things cannot handle issues outside of their programming. So instead of a $50,000 manager, the restaurant will need to hire a $125,000 technical manager and probably several of those.
In other words, liberal policies will drive even cheap fast food restaurants out of business.
Minimum wage isn’t the minimum I have to pay you, it is the minimum job allowed to be performed. Jobs that are worth less are illegal.
Excellent plan, that’s why you’re the boss.
And it won’t give you Coronavirus.
“It will be a bloodbath. And it is coming.”
The insurance company where my daughter works as a claims adjuster is already incorporating more and more AI into her job duties.
Since the $1 burger is now nearly $2, with the $1 burger be $1 again? Naw, it’ll probably go to $2.50.
The pull quote that should make us all think and I have been saying this for years, especially on the topic of illegal immigration.
“A report by the University of Oxford suggests we will soon face a robot job apocalypse predicting that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots and Artificial Intelligence over the next fifteen to twenty years.”
Our “economy” and labor market is going to fundamentally change in ways we are not yet beginning to comprehend. This will have a major impact on our nation and will swell the number of people living on entitlements as the job market shrinks.
Actually, it appears to be included.
The restaurants are leasing the robots a $2,000 per month.
It's happening already with automatic dishwashers and self-cleaning ovens in pretty much every home. I'm old enough to remember my poor mother scrubbing pots and pans and hand-washing dishes, as well has hanging laundry out on a clothesline as we had no dryer even. Oven cleaning was an all afternoon chore.
Consider the slave economy we had prior to the mid 19th Century. The slaves toiled all day long while the "masters" and "mistresses" reclined on front porches drinking mint juleps all day in white suits and dresses. Okay, I'm getting overly carried away here with the imagery. But we are headed back to those days. Only the robots are the new slaves, creating the wealth, while the human masters (now regardless of race and sex) recline on front porches, watching the corn pop up in rows while dinner is being prepared indoors.
Show me where I am wrong.
MacDonalds has been taking the fast out of fast food for several decades.
Minimum wage has never been meant to fully support anyone. It was an entry level wage. In the 60s, I started as a dishwasher for 75 cents an hour and worked my way into a job cooking. Even when I left college and enlisted in the Marines, my monthly pay before taxes was $124.50 which was about what I was making working part time and going to school. The difference was I was housed and fed although I was working three times as hard. That is how a young person learns responsibility and learns to work to achieve a better living. At least that used to be the case.
Robots in fast food will at least make the service a bit faster and more consistent. Any change is better. The snowflakes and politicians are putting a lot of people out of any work at all.
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