Automation in the electronics industry cracks me up.
“I don’t want to pay ‘mylife’ to troubleshoot circuits, so I will buy a million dollar prober, send mylife to school to learn how to run it and program it and repair it”
LOL
Well I don’t know about electronics per se, but some or another form of automation is used just about everywhere. The machines don’t need 24 hour maintenance and programming. Just routine maintenance and the occasional repair. One full time technician can service 100’s or even 1000’s of restaurants.
I guess my point was more about the minimum wage hike, and unintended consequences of that. At some point the amortization costs (and hassle factor of scheduling and working with humans) will beat labor costs and we will witness the vanishing of those $15 hour jobs year after year the more they are adopted in the industries. $15 an hour, plus the employers share of tax, plus the insurance is more like $20/hour.