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A company in Chicago has invented a robot that can make 360 burgers an hour. Pair that up with a touch screen order and pay system similar to the self serve check out at the local supermarket and there will no longer be a need for people to flip burgers.
"We want to help the people who may transition to a new job as a result of our technology the best way we know how: education.
Our goal is to offer discounted technical training to any former line cook of a restaurant that uses our device. We will certainly need more engineers to design new devices and technicians to service a growing line of automated restaurant solutions. These are the minds that can do this job. If you are a vocational training institution, please contact us here.
The issue of machines and job displacement has been around for centuries and economists generally accept that technology like ours actually causes an increase in employment. The three factors that contribute to this are
1. the company that makes the robots must hire new employees,
2. the restaurant that uses our robots can expand their frontiers of production which requires hiring more people, and
3. the general public saves money on the reduced cost of our burgers. This saved money can then be spent on the rest of the economy. We take these issues very seriously so please feel free to tell us how we can help with this transition."
I like the theory...I would love to see the metrics on the 1-year, 3-year and 5-year results someday.
I would too, but I think point # 3 is bogus.
I feel like the company would just pocket extra cash.
I can't picture a company really cutting their prices in half.
Conservatives generally go for bacon cheese burgers, fries and pepperoni pizza.....lefties, soy burger with Brie and pommes frites , and whole wheat organic goat cheese and arugula pizza.
I'm pretty sure I could start a thread on why pizza is better that burgers and it would turn into a "right winger" vs. "liberal" argument. Does everything have to be politicized?
You tell me: Wouldn't it be more straightforward to acknowledge the structural impediments people in our society face trying to afford the basics of life, and just have society go ahead and remove those impediments? One would think that that would be an easy, non-controversial approach, since we're not talking about giving people comfort or luxuries, but just making up for failures in society to offer access to the basics.
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Originally Posted by WestPhillyDude75
Well you really can't expect to be in a LOW CRIME area when your salary is not HIGH. The only important thing is having a place to live
I hope you realize how offensive this comment is, how it grossly marginalizes the value of children born into poor homes, for starters.
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Originally Posted by flamingo_pink
SOMEONE has to live in the bad areas.
Of course, but there's a difference between the parks being deficient in landscaping, the houses needing a coat of paint, etc., versus being a victim of crime, rat-infested neighborhoods because garbage removal is weekly where it needs to be twice a week, food deserts, underfunded high schools, etc.
The inability for the right-wing to respect poor people as human beings blinds them to this distinction.
There are stupid people in this world and they make a career out of fast food. They do need a living wage, and we're lucky to have them or else no one else would do the job so how would we get our burgers?
most of these jobs are considered an entry level job to the job market,for high school kids needing gas money etc. these jobs aren't meant for a person to raise a wife and 6 kids
Amazing how some quarters of our society manage to craft their perspectives such that being someone who works is a bad thing, even when other rhetoric of theirs accuses such working people of not working!
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