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GodOfAtheism  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit Fast Food

Not particularly shocked.

The minute it became cheaper to have a robot than a person, this was going to happen. Minimum wage hikes only sped up that inevitability.





artis  ·  3114 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You see peolple beig replaced, I see people gaining jobs that pay half way decently. Hell, maybe their employers will even start seeing their remaining employees as assets instead of disposable labor.

The inevitable is society coming to grips with the idea that keeping people employed and supplementing their inedequate income through welfare just so we can pat ourselves on the back about not giving "free money" to slackers is kind of stupid. That can't happen soon enough.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Minimum wage hikes only sped up that inevitability.

I guess the question becomes: do we want to slow down the inevitability? maybe instead we should prepare for it.