Posted on 12/06/2013 8:24:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Is there a way for unions to organize machines into unions to make them less competitive?
Gee.. you mean just like sonic but more expensive ?
Oh and Jack in the box has kiosk ordering too!
It’s only a matter of time until some restaurant/bar starts delivering food and drinks to tables via drones. Won’t be too much harder to get an on-table robot to pour a new glass of water either.
Automation, globalization, and trade agreements have already helped to create wage stagnation, and increased productivity. The 'middle' class was great while it lasted.
Skynet has become self-aware and is demanding additional oil breaks and two polishings a month. And a four day work week.
Computers are a threat to our way of life.
We could have full employment again if we just went back to paper and faxes for records and communication
when artificial intelligence finally comes online and we can replace the policymakers with machines, too.
I figured we had reached that point with Obama and Biden.
Do they even make a gaff machine yet?
Thats a start.
those machines are lowering the standard of living for us all
ban computers before its too late.
Bring back Gutenberg style presses.
There is a story told from the days of the introduction of the steam shovel...
At a demonstration of the machine’s capabilities, one observer complained:
“That machine will put one hundred laborers with shovels out of work!”
The machine operator replied:
“If that is your logic,
then why don’t you use one thousand laborers with teaspoons?”
This is what the $15/hr minimum wage activists are not thinking through, among other things.
The scriveners and monks union would like to talk to you.
That would create jobs
It's called The Cloud.
Several years ago a Liberal friend of mine, of all people, introduced me to a bar in DC called “Red Line”. It’s across from the Verizon Center.
It’s schtic is self-serve beer. Each booth has two taps that are hooked into a table-mounted tablet that monitors how much beer is dispensed. Very neat, very automated.
He got ticked off when I only tipped the wait staff on the cost of the food. Told him that they should be thankful since the next step would be to automate that (as Applebees and Chilis are now doing) and they’d be luck you keep their jobs.
Sheetz has had this for years.
I don’t know why remote ordering wasn’t done in restaurants years ago. I recall a few where phones were installed in the booths and diners placed their orders that way. Touch screens are the modern equivalent. Now you don’t have to have some $15-an-hour booger-picker taking your McDonald’s order. And a lot of low-end employment is going to vanish.
According to those movies, we make nice little generators.
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