You want fries with that?
“”We’re asking for $15 because in order to support one person in a one bedroom apartment you need to make $14.88. We don’t make anywhere near that and we’re all on food stamps,” 23-year-old Amanda Larson”
That’s a sad story, Amanda.....now STFU and get my fries before it gets cold.
Robots have taken a lot of manufacturing jobs. I suppose that eventually, it will be a good thing, as they will perform all the drudgery and free up the workforce for better things.
In the meantime, there are lots of displaced, unskilled workers.
The real problem is not the wages, but the barriers that exist that makes it difficult to learn marketable skills.
and someone didn’t ping me to this. Same thing I’ve been saying all day.
There are already french fry and burger vending machines. The french fries are dropped in a fryer when you order it and delivered HOT. There are even pizza vending machines.
No reason robots couldn’t replace these useless breathers.
“Give me a number 5 ... for a robocop.”
Hey fast food workers at $15 an hour, if you still have a job, you will be absolutely required to get our orders RIGHT.
Amazon has a Seattle grocery warehouse where a fleet of robots actually pull multi-item orders from the shelves and deliver them to the proper loading dock.
Next job in danger?
Warehouse-to-warehouse long haul truckers.
I have a long-standing ongoing argument with a friend about the “living wage”. She just refuses to see that when a person’s minimum pay is set at some level, it prices them out of the market. She just believes (BELIEVES!!!) that the only reason that wages are set at the current level is because the corporations won’t raise them.
Of course, she’s a pastor and her wage is set by TPTB in her denomination rather than the amount of money brought into her congregation.
Meanwhile Bill Gates told Congress that degreed engineers wanted too much money to do computer work and that more HB1 visa Indian scabs were need so he could pocket 33 billion because there wasn't enough to pay workers and remain profitable.
Mr. Gate lie to Congress affected the entire industry, not just his little kingdom.
I say let's get more Indians in America flipping burgers. That seems to be the solution to everything.
Betcha those robots don’t spit in the food the way Je$$e Jack$$on used to do.
plus robots don’t spit in your food or take selfies of their weiners on your buns
It was bound to happen and I can’t think of an argument against automating the Fast food workers if the company feels that the are to much of an expense vs. the labor received.
But on the other hand what happens when there aren’t the people available to buy your products because they don’t have jobs, because they were all automated out of existence and there aren’t the jobs left to earn the money to do so? EBT cards? Fine let’s say that’s the official answer. where’s the Government going to get the money to keep loading them every month? Taxes? You got to earn money to be able to pay income taxes. Property taxes? Well people, there is a HUGE revolt building up there too.
Continue to ‘borrow’ money? Not to much of that left either, unless you want hyper-inflation. Even then there is the feeling of being on a piece of s... going down the toilet bowl.
Reduce the population so that ‘everything’ balances out again? I wouldn’t bet the farm on that one. Way to many ‘known unknowns’ and ‘unknown unknowns’ there.
This author probably watches that Sam & Cat show...their fave restaurant is a place called Bots .....servers are all robots
And robots can’t spit in your food for being too White...
I’m all for robots fixing my food at a restaurant primarily for sanitary reasons.
I can think of several times when the laxative effect was so great I could not make it home, had to stop at a convenience store to relieve myself.
I knew a low life that worked at a fast food place as a kid and bragged about hawking up oysters and spitting them on hamburgers.
At a favorite restaurant once I noticed the cook having snot running from both nostrils and dripping on to the grille.
I’m not making this stuff up, it’s disgusting.
I going to sell pencils on a New York City street corner and since I’m not interested in no minimum wage, no living wage or any of that stuff, I’m going for the “Living Well” wage.
Therefore my pencils will be priced and sold at $100 each and I will sell at least 12 per very short day. I know that sounds like a lot but this is New York City where a guy picking up garbage starts at about 70 grand a year and you need half a million dollars to own a cab.
But why would anyone pay a hundred bucks for a ten cent pencil? New York City will pass a law demanding the first 12 people I approach buy a pencil or face discrimination charges and fines. Cheaper to buy the pencil, cash or credit card. After all, when the fast food joints are put out of business people like me will have to fend for ourselves.
Now don’t think you’re going to brush by me like you didn’t notice me, I got a hidden camera and a hungry lawyer. You will buy.
Who loves ya, baby!