Given that Trump is going to save American jobs from immigrants and trade (from US buying foreign made goods) isn't he calling for bans on automation the next logical step.
Doesn't automation ‘steal jobs’?
It isn’t a coincidence that this concept arose in San Francisco, which for years has had one of the country’s highest minimum wages and some of the nation’s most business-burdening labor regulations. The result: Since the recession ended, median family income in San Francisco has increased to about $78,000 from $70,000, but the poverty rate increased to 13.3% from 11.5%. So some in San Francisco are making more money, but more people are living in poverty. Why?
You might be safer in San Francisco if your hamburger was made by a robot....
Automation doesn’t demand $15 an hour, call in sick constantly, and you don’t have to do the diversity tango and risk getting sued because you didn’t hire the right color machine.
Given that Trump is going to save American jobs from immigrants and trade (from US buying foreign made goods) isn't he calling for bans on automation the next logical step.
Doesn't automation ‘steal jobs’?
In the mid 60s, it cost me a $10 roll of quarters to call my g/f and talk for 30 minutes, at a time when I was only making about $100 per month (Military).
I know an engineer who took a job in 2006 to help develop a fully automated burger cooking station. He was sworn to secrecy and was made to sign multiple nondisclosure agreements. (but I know his client uses a pretty redhead in their ads)
He held the job for a few years, but the system was never implemented. A combination of technical problems and increasing fears by the client that they’d become the target of left-wing protests, boycotts, and threats from politicians once word got out.
As long as the automaton doesnt have green or purple hair and poorly done tatoos all over.
And maybe the robot will remember not to put onions on my damn burger.
Does anybody remember the “Automat” cafeterias in Manhattan in the 50’s? They gave the illusion of automation, as workers placed dishes behind glass-front doors that you could open with coins. I was very young then, and I thought it was the coolest thing.
Now, maybe the automation will be less of an illusion.
Sadly, Marx projected that it would be possible for capital improvement and accumulation to make most workers superfluous. He may have been right in this, although his “solution” of common ownership by “the workers” was insane.
Because America has to be flushed down the tubes to make the world safe for globalism. C’mon, just about the only jobs we have left is serving each other cheeseburgers. Next thing you know, we’ll have robot greeters at WalMart.
we reduce jobs whenever we shop on Amazon instead of our local retail outlet, use an Uber app rather than calling a cab dispatcher, order a pizza online, use an airport kiosk to print boarding passes, or scan groceries. Each of these changes in behavior has increased convenience and reduced labor costs
All in an effort to allow Bankers to extract a percentage of Every Dollar Spent, DEN OF VIPERS.
Identity theft and credit card theft are the same as pregnancy, Abstinence works every time it is tried.
One of the reasons for the poverty rate is....Disability. Obama has disabled more people than our largest war. The number of people the Disability doubled under Obama.
You get an SSI check and work under the table for someone.
Dang it.
Direct result of minimum wage, obamacare and union organizing. Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union campaigning ‘for the good of farm workers’, made it ‘economical’ to use tomato picking machines.
Good news for my shop. I just finished up my second PLC packaging machine. It shouldn’t be so hard to adapt that to burger making.
I for one would welcome paying a little more at the gas station for someone to check my oil, wash my front windows, check the air in my tires and pump my gas. Would suspect if stations would begin again to offer the option of full service enough people would take advantage of it to make it profitable.
Served as a great employment opportunity for high school kids when my son was in school. Of course back them parents made sure that their kids who drove knew how to maintain a car. Today’s kids probably not so much.
Policies that encourage low skilled people not to work has this effect. They stop working and take handouts. Those with good jobs continue to receive normal wage increases.
So the party that continues to go on and on about the “growing divide” are the ones guilty of creating it in the first place, driving more voters to their corner. It is by design.
Ok, the waitress can be a robot as long as it calls me “hon”, but I want a 4 handed alien as the cook, like in Starwars.
The way forward is now in action in China
Phone aps for transactions call up bots that are web sites of eateries. the buyer calls up his transaction ap and then the eaterie bot menu. he selects the desired menu items anc checks out. His transaction ap knows which auto pay web payment system is in use. It pays and receipt comes to the phone
the buyer shows the phone receipt and picks up his order. Free software and good web transaction capability do the job. There is no need for expensive robot terminals. the hardware already exists!
Citation: Forbes
Not a good omen for the wait staff currently working there.