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How many of them are US citizens anyway? Send 'em back to Mexico when they lose their jobs. Automation and higher wages for employees would happen naturally if illegals were kept out of the country.
The Laws of Unintended Consequences cannot be denied. This happens when you make decisions based on emotions and utopian dreams, rather than based on research, reason, and a knowledge of human behavior.
There is a reason America worked so well for over 200 years.
The free market -- while unfairly cruel -- is simply the most efficient way to match consumers with goods and services. It rewards good ideas, punishes bad ideas, and reacts swiftly with no favoritism or bias.
When government picks winners and losers, something always goes wrong. Then they pass a new law to fix what went wrong, and five more things go wrong. Rinse, repeat until everything goes wrong.
"Government is best that governs least".
And then people ask why I am conservative and desire limited government at every turn.
Newsom will find some way to get more taxpayer money to people impacted by this .
You'll have a $30 hamburger at McDonald's cooked by a $20-per-hour student using a frozen patty.
Or you'll have a $32 tasteful meal at a restaurant cooked by a $25-per-hour chef using only fresh ingredients.
Guaranteed that $25/hr chef won't be working for $25/hr if the McD's guy is making $20/hr to show up stoned/hungover and push buttons with automated timers and temperatures.
There must be something in the water in Cali. I remember my father (a Democrat) referring to California as "the land of fruits and nuts" 60 years ago. Apparently nothing has changed.
That is because buying robots and maintaining them are more expensive than the previous labor costs were under the low minimum wage. The restaurant owners are simply trying to reduce overhead as much as possible.
If your labor is $10/hour, it costs $100,000 for your 5-man crew for a year.
Double that, and your same 5-man crew costs $200,000 for the year.
A robot that now costs $120,000 per year is low enough to replace 4 of your 5 staff with automation, cutting down to just one worker to check on things and take out the trash and mop the floors and unlock the doors, not at the new $40k per year.
So a robot and one guy at $160k, is less than the $200k you would have paid doubling the minimum wage.
Either way, his cost is way more than the original $100k, so he has to raise his prices.
Confused?
Robots don't strike, call out sick, take vacations, or shoot up the place when they feel "dissed".
betting left will blame the failures of greedy business again!!
What they don't realize is that the lone McD franchise makes nowhere near "MacDonalds Corporation"
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