[ClaytonP]

Its all part of the plan, get as many people unemployed as possible

[jsanders2001]

Chili’s is going to let you order from tablets that are hooked into their system and then have a reduced staff bring your food to you. Commies everywhere thank you, Obama, for killing capitalism and instilling fear in the marketplace. Conservatives thank you for proving once again that socialism doesn’t work except to enrich the ruling elite.

[nathanbedford]

Hamburger flipper jobs are to be regarded as a necessary evil they are not to be regarded as a positive good if a machine can do the same job more efficiently. To believe otherwise is to be a Luddite or a Democrat.

To make laws to stimulate hamburger flipper jobs is just as wrongheaded as we are when we attempt by legislation to artificially elevate the value of those jobs with minimum wage laws. If we make laws to stimulate the creation of hamburger flipper jobs, or if we pass health care legislation the effect of which is to drive down many workers toward hamburger flipper level jobs, we are severely damaging the economy. If we make legislation to create hamburger flipper level jobs to accommodate another rush of illegal immigrants we are suicidal.

If we let the marketplace decide whether to do a job with a machine or a person we benefit both the person and the manufacturer of the machine as well is the employer who makes that decision and the consumer of the product made as a result of that decision. Let the government interfere in any way in that process and we get dislocations which will surely harm at least one of those people described.

[grania]

It does punch whole in the argument that invaders are needed to provide cheap labor and jobs US citizens won’t do.