Meddling Left Calif. Pols Ensure Fast Food's Robot Future(Minimum wage)

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[DIRTYSECRET]

It was a stroke of good fortune for the Trump campaign that he was able to become a McDonalds fry cook this year before robots pushed all the humans out of the kitchen.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Labor saving is profitable. Industry would proceed regardless of the minimum wage. So what to do with all the Mexicans? Deporting them all would give more power to the lazy born-here folk. They at least don't complain. Pulling the welfare rug out from under the receivers won't be as efficient. A leopard can't change it's spots. Allowing the majority law-abiding to stay to do the low level service jobs is best.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Post offices all over the country. Have the illegals report to one, fill out a form and have a panel of local citizens determine their suitability like a draft board. This is a process that will take weeks. Fingerprint them.

Trump has the answer.

[Larry Lucido]

Going back to this.

[Brian Griffin]

“like a draft board”

I was thinking of Ukrainian army press gangs.

Don’t speak English? Time to learn basic military Ukrainian.

[Brian Griffin]

More likely food court leasing operation.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I remember going into that very Automat when I was a kid.

[Larry Lucido]

Same here!

[Brian Griffin]

“With its Mexico solidarity project, the UAW will fight alongside the country’s growing militant independent labor movement, ensuring justice for autoworkers extends beyond borders.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-mexico-solidarity-project-autoworkers-union-borders

[Bon of Babble]

Good luck fining a fast food joint in California that doesn’t have kiosks for ordering food. We just went to a higher-tier seafood restaurant that (newly) only had ordering from a kiosk.

Robotization will continue apace:

“Fry robot is called Flippy and it “can fry French fries and chicken nuggets much faster than humans. …

Flippy never has translation confusion, daycare emergencies, car trouble, parent–teacher meetings and it will work a 24-hour sift without complaint. Plus, Flippy will never ask for an advance on a paycheck.”

He also won’t come to work drunk or high or call in sick 10 minutes before his shift starts on a very busy weekend.

[ComputerGuy]

Me too! I had my first slice of Boston Cream Pie.

[catnipman]

how long before Dem politicians in CA attempt to outlaw robots in fast food kitchens?

[CottonBall]

“Labor saving is profitable. Industry would proceed regardless of the minimum wage.”

Probably depends on the cost - robotics may not be cheap + there is maintenance too.

There’s probably a price point where it’s cheaper to pay workers, and over that cheaper to get the robotics.

[Reily]

It also will depend on the industry.

[DouglasKC]

I for one love our robot overlord kiosks. They remove one more possibility of error. If the order was input wrong it’s my fault.

[Who is John Galt?]

[PapaBear3625]

There’s probably a price point where it’s cheaper to pay workers, and over that cheaper to get the robotics.

Musk is saying he will offer his humanoid robots for about $30K, which (amortized over three years, and 80 hours per week) equals $2/hour.

There will be a point, as they become more reliable (= less maintenance costs) that it will be cheaper to have a robot than to feed even Third World illegals.

[PapaBear3625]

Musk’s Optimus robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gw5bJ_qFls

[Does so]

I’ve got an “Avtomat Kalashnikov” poster (16”x~24”) like that one.

[Theoria]

Ai/Robot work arbitrage is coming either way. Min. wage is a small blip in coming neo Luddite war. The looming war will create vast amounts of social carnage and social fissures.

[spokeshave]

Musk is saying he will offer his humanoid robots for about $30K, which (amortized over three years, and 80 hours per week) equals $2/hour

I have a disabled relative.....would be a hoot to see the robot pushing his wheelchair down to the local McDonalds...

I guess the robot would have a great conversation with the robotic food server.