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Peter1469
08-17-2015, 02:32 AM
Low and non-skilled labor are protesting their way out of jobs (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/minimum-wage-offensive-could-speed-arrival-of-robot-powered-restaurants/2015/08/16/35f284ea-3f6f-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_story.html). Here come the robots!


Crowded. That’s how Ed Rensi remembers what life was like working at McDonald’s back in 1966. There were about double the number of people working in the store — 70 or 80, as opposed to the 30 or 40 there today — because preparing the food just took a lot more doing.

“When I first started at McDonald’s making 85 cents an hour, everything we made was by hand,” Rensi said — from cutting the shortcakes to stirring syrups into the milk for shakes. Over the years, though, ingredients started to arrive packaged and pre-mixed, ready to be heated up, bagged and handed out the window.


“More and more of the labor was pushed back up the chain,” said Rensi, who went on to become chief executive of the company in the 1990s. The company kept employing more grill cooks and cashiers as it expanded, but each one of them accounted for more of each store’s revenue as more sophisticated cooking techniques allowed each to become more productive.

Common
08-17-2015, 03:21 AM
The robots were coming anyway and im a great cynic, employers will do whatever it takes to reach their goal of paying Nothing to have their goods produced, moved and sold.

Employers need to remember that its "emploees" that buy goods and services not their robots and the unemployed.

AeonPax
08-17-2015, 03:38 AM
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What a smashing idea. Let's replace all jobs with robots and computers then no one will be employed.

Peter1469
08-17-2015, 06:00 AM
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What a smashing idea. Let's replace all jobs with robots and computers then no one will be employed.


We had a thread on that based off an article titled Robots will take over the jobs and why that is a good thing.

Mark III
08-17-2015, 09:34 AM
We had a thread on that based off an article titled Robots will take over the jobs and why that is a good thing.

Good for who ? We are going to end up with people being paid to stay home and do nothing. A LOT of people. Is that the "good" part ? maybe so.

Peter1469
08-17-2015, 09:37 AM
Good for who ? We are going to end up with people being paid to stay home and do nothing. A LOT of people. Is that the "good" part ? maybe so.

Here is the link to a previous discussion on the article.
(http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/48793-Robots-will-take-many-of-our-jobs-%E2%80%93-and-that-s-good?highlight=Robots+jobs+good+thing)