[EagleUSA]

Here comes the $20.00 hamburger. The liberal idiots are destroying American business and driving it out.

[TexasFreeper2009]

quote “When you drive labor costs up too fast and too high, employers will invest in the increasingly affordable technology required to replace workers with automation.”

yep,which is exactly why the industrial revolution happened right after slavery was abolished.

There is and will always be a need for cheap labor. When businesses can’t get it.. they will force a technological leap to address their need.

[Durbin]

I didn’t see that coming at all. . . . “Sarcasm”

[Iron Munro]

Horn & Hardart had that idea a hundred years ago.

[boycott]

Less chance the machine spits in your food — especially if they’re using work release prisoners.

[varyouga]

I predict some upcoming “affirmative action” laws for human workers by dimbulb lawmakers. i.e. for every machine, you must hire a minimum number of humans at the state's minimum wage.

Of course it will result in closing of businesses and eventual collapse of the non-underground economy. i.e. Venezuela

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Whatever you do, don't automate the advertising.

[randomhero97]

Mike Judge is a prophet.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The writer erroneously assumes that those pushing for higher minimum wages are looking out for the best interests of those workers who would benefit from it.

Leftists know that jobs will be destroyed and these very workers will get exploited against businesses, so the Left can continue its objective of seizing absolute power.

[ChessExpert]

I saw the headline. It’s what I’ve been saying for sometime.

Is there anyone who has not seen an automated checkout line?

It’s optional now. Later we will face a squeeze of long lines at the few remaining manned check-out line(s). Then, “once we’ve gotten used to it,” all check-out lines will be automated.

Without minimum wage increases, manned lines would have continued longer, perhaps another 50 years. Without a minimum wage in the first place, we might never have automated check-out lines.

We don’t actually “raise the minimum wage.” Instead, we outlaw low-paying jobs.

[EnglishOnly]

“When you drive labor costs up too fast and too high, employers will invest in the increasingly affordable technology required to replace workers with automation. “

GOOD!

[onedoug]

“The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future....” —The Aviator

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Anyone who ever travels by plane already knows what’s happened in the nation’s airports. When you showed up at the terminal as little as ten years ago there were a lot more agents checking people in, printing their boarding passes and processing their baggage fees. Today the number of such workers has been reduced (and to be honest, the process has become quicker) with the advent of computerized kiosks where we enter our confirmation number or ID or credit card and the machine does the rest, including printing out boarding passes and receipts.”

Less of them but those jobs have been replaced by TSA (government) workers security jobs funded by a tax on airline tickets.

GSs who cant be laid off.

[Organic Panic]

In most cases of minimum wage it is tied in to labor union contracts and government employee wages. None of those fools care if their burgers are served by a machine.

[Zack Attack]

As long as they can automate the kiosk with Ed’s voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZZh7bOvBlI

[VerySadAmerican]

Buccee’s has kiosks where you place and pay for your order. There is a human who prepares it and hands it to you.

I wish the media would ask the workers how they’ll feel when they’re replaced by a robot.

[Freedom56v2]

This was obvious...