Would the US economy collapse if all fast food jobs were replaced with robots? (wage, legal)

[HappyTexan]

It was cause a small blip. Only 3.7 million work in FF.
We have a total of 144 million workers in the US.


• Employees in the U.S. fast food restaurant industry 2018 | Statistic

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by bson1257

If you took away all the fast food jobs in this country, would the economy collapse? If you have millions and millions of young workers that are essentially unemployable due to little to no experience, the economy would probably not be able to recover.

50% of them are still living at home though. 50% of 3.7 million is 1.85 million workers.

Out of 122 million workers you think the economy will collapse if 1.85 million lost their min wage part time jobs ?

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

No. It would improve the economy.

Why? Because robots could do a lot more cost effective job?

[jamies]

Most are already on welfare anyway. What does it matter if they work or not?

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

It would be a boost to the economy, because while most of those minimum wage jobs would go away, there will be a big demand for robotics technicians, who would make significantly more. The former fast-food people would be forced to acquire skills, or go into retail, construction labor or housekeeping, competing with and eventually replacing the illegals.

LOL, robots will surely be made for the purpose of fixing robots. Robots are going to replace construction and housekeeping jobs as well. Who wants to clean toilets and do somebody else's dirty laundry?

[dv1033]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

It was cause a small blip. Only 3.7 million work in FF.
We have a total of 144 million workers in the US.


• Employees in the U.S. fast food restaurant industry 2018 | Statistic

Again... if we have that type of technology it would go way beyond fast food.

Technology and automation along with globalization are responsible for higher and higher productivity and stagnating and stagnating wages.

[SunGrins]

Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie

Who wants to clean toilets and do somebody else's dirty laundry?

Americans don't -- we have people to do that...they come from foreign countries.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by Ih2puo

I'm sure all fast food workers are waiting to be fired so they can improve their education and get better jobs.

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Sure. And it's important to understand that robots will only be able to lay off so many people before too many jobless people mean not enough money to buy services and products from robots. Whether there will be enough new jobs to replace the human jobs robots take over is still a matter up for debate amongst the experts. Just because previous technological revolutions never put most people out of work doesn't mean the next one won't as well.

[Roaddog]

I don't know if it would collapse but I would probably get my order the way I asked for.

[Govie]

WWH if tens of millions of Americans were suddenly out of work?


I think all hell would break loose...then again maybe the law of averages would see that the 30 million illegals squatting here (taking jobs) would take their sorry a--es back to where they came from.