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I think all of the fast food restaurants should fix the audio on their drive-throughs in both directions. Sometimes I feel like I'm conversing with Kenny from South Park.
There are automated factories in the US that once employed Americans, once employed workers in China and now they employ ZERO humans because it is much cheaper and efficient to use automation.
For the record I am 200% for automation since only fools oppose technological progress.
At one point in the not so distant future automation will really take off and invade ALL aspects of life. A physician can be replaced by a machine, we already have robotic surgeons. All fast food places will be automated as well as most restaurants and other industries.
The list is endless and it will greatly benefit mankind. Folks from the future will look at this era and wonder why we slaved away 50 hours a week. At most humans will have a great amount of leisure and as time goes by perhaps most labor will be abolished. At some point wealth accumulation will be redundant because we already have everything we need. We see some hints already, now homeless folks have cell phones and two meals a day.
If everyone gets to share societies wealth and property even if he sits on his arse all day putzing around doing things he or she wants to do, that the post capitalist Communist society. I thought you would like to know.
In a way I think the external drive up window could be automated pretty easily. Odds are if you are like me you order the same thing every time. Or maybe a couple choices.
Put in a license plate reader, and have a screen that displays your most common orders. The new "I'll have a #4" could literally be preconfigured for you.
Where would Michigan the auto industry be WITHOUT automation and the assembly line?
Where would be with the majority of things being built via the assembly line?
I find it ironic how so many on here praise the "progressive" way, yet when REAL progress comes along, they are against it.
Well once the big three automakers once employed 3 million blue collar working men and a few women making fewer cars than less than 300,000 do today . Detroit wouldn't have square miles of vacant lots and decaying buildings that were once Ford, GM, Chrystler or AMC plants and have over a million more people as would Flint and its suburbs and the small cities that dot that part of the Midwest. The big 3 also outsources all the parts needed to make those cars from small machine shots and people making glass steel, rubber and paid thousands of truckers and rail people to get all the parts to the big assembly plants in SE Michigan . it was estimated about 15 million workers in those industries owed their jobs to the American car makers. Changing technology, materials and process engineering and auto design is one reason they don't make basic. steel any more in Youngstown and the Pittsburgh area. Also todays big 3 find it makes more sense to build whole engines and other machined assemblies in Brazil, Mexico, Italy Spain, Thailand, Korea and even China.
So I think the question about how automation and changing business procedures being nothing but pure GOOD needs to be thought over long and hard, because telling replaced or surplus workers to go off and get an education on their own nickel to qualify new jobs that won't be there or competing for temporary low wage jobs with their kids isn't really cutting it and hasn't ever since 1980. Half of the manufacturing jobs in the USA have disappeared since 1980 and 80% of them before we even opened up trade with China in 1999 .
It's been pointed out time and again that the majority of people making $10/hr or less aren't "teenagers".
Ah, once again a leftist trots the myth that all these low wage workers are really hard working struggling family heads. You people trot out so much crap you really ought to be embarrassed.
Reality:
People at or below the federal minimum are:
◾Disproportionately young: 50.4% are ages 16 to 24; 24% are teenagers (ages 16 to 19).
◾Mostly (77%) white; nearly half are white women.
◾Largely part-time workers (64% of the total).
A majority is actually quite time, usually part timers. That the truth, that's why everything you say on the subject is agenda driven, ideological BS.
I think all of the fast food restaurants should fix the audio on their drive-throughs in both directions. Sometimes I feel like I'm conversing with Kenny from South Park.
1. Removes RUDE mcdonalds drive thru idiots who cant hear you or dont even know what is on their own menu, busy being stupid, talking in spanish, and don't understand english.
2. Removes this nonsense of 15 per hour.
3. Does this work? Lets see ever been to a WAWA.
If I want good service I just go to a SONIC anyway.
You live in PA. The only Spanish you hear from fast food workers are from Puerto Ricans, who are all natural born US citizens, the same as you. Oh but I bet you assumed they were illegal immigrants from Mexico didn't you?
Ah, once again a leftist trots the myth that all these low wage workers are really hard working struggling family heads. You people trot out so much crap you really ought to be embarrassed.
Reality:
People at or below the federal minimum are:
◾Disproportionately young: 50.4% are ages 16 to 24; 24% are teenagers (ages 16 to 19).
◾Mostly (77%) white; nearly half are white women.
◾Largely part-time workers (64% of the total).
A majority is actually quite time, usually part timers. That the truth, that's why everything you say on the subject is agenda driven, ideological BS.
Once 90% of jobs are automated the unemployment will be so high that the work week will be reduced to 10-15 hours and the pay will increase substantially to make up for the lost hours. Of course, I am assuming the folks that own the automation technology are not greedy. Socialism is always needed in capitalist countries to avoid revolution.
Or we'll need 90% fewer people. Who says the population has to keep growing or remain constant?
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Originally Posted by Julian658
This concept will soon disappear. Once everything is automated the employer will simply pay the employee a higher salary for doing very little work, no more than supervising the machines.
Have you ever even had a job? You've clearly never managed people or run a business. Employers are NOT going to simply pay people more for doing less.
I'm waiting for automated customers which will interact with those automated kiosks.
Decide what want, send out the drone, and voila! A mucilage burger with fries delivered to yo doah!
Now if we can just do something about that chewing and swallowing hassle...
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