Robot Replaces Workers At Fast Food Restaurant

It's called "progress". When the buggy-makers were being put out of work by Henry Ford, they were probably running around like Chicken Little's too, proclaiming the economic end-times; of course, it never came and everyone was much better off as a result of creative destruction.

I guess I shouldn't get annoyed, though. There will always be economic illiterates in this world. Heck, the current administration is headed by an economic illiterate...

 

Yea, because no new jobs will ever come about. The economy is totally static, stuck in time forever like a fossilized insect.

 

I've pretty much stopped eating fast foods. If I do, it is usually McDonalds. Other hamburger places tend to have better items, but their consistency sucks so bad. When Wendy's is on their game, they can't be beat for my money. Problem is, they are off so often that it's a crap shoot. McDonalds, for whatever reason, are always consistent.

 

And they will.

Innumerable jobs have been replaced throughout history by technologies and such, yet life has only gotten better over time. There is no reason to think that people won't be able to find new and even better jobs simply because their current occupation is becoming obsolete.

 

So let's see.

Robotic order takers replacing jobs in the USA, machines which are made in China by people making a few dollars per day, are going to "create more jobs than they replace" in the USA?

Yeah. Right.

I don't disagree with newer technologies, but I do disagree with people who think all we have to do for the success of our economy is to sit back and let greed run the show.

 

Because McDonald's corporate executives are some of the best in the world. If you eat a Big Mac in China, it will taste exactly as you expect it to taste. They are the model of efficiency and accountability in corporate America. They've provided more benefit to the planet in one day than any politician has in their entire life!

 

Hiring the useless is too expensive.

 

Good grief, you have gone off on a hypothetical tangent on this issue. You have already determined makes the robots when the actual scenario of assembly line robot production is probably a decade away.

My post stands as is.

 

free if the robots name is Jesse and the customer is white

 

Machines replacing workers is a good thing. A very good thing. Having jobs doesn't matter. Unemployment can be a good thing. If there is no more useful work available, people can work fewer days, fewer hours, and have fewer people having to work. There could be 1 adult in a family instead of 2 working. Let's say a robot can do the same amount of work for half the cost. That means you can pay the people who do work twice as much per hour and work half the time. That way the unemployment rate goes down while fewer people have to work and getting paid the same. I can't believe 90% of people don't understand this basic concept.

 

Obviously, you're going to need some type of socialism if robots are doing most of the work. Eventually, pretty much everyone would get paid the same and practically everything would be free.

 

Food prices would also be a lot cheaper if we had the same population we did back then.

 

Or people wouldn't have to work at all. Would you work if you didn't have to? I wouldn't, unless I really loved what I was doing. There are not many jobs out there that would fit that description. Would you work just to work? It seems like way too many people do this. I would rather have more lazy people than people who work just to work. If robots do most of the work, people should only work at places they really enjoy. How many people enjoy their job? Not many. What I don't like is people who say others should work if they don't want to.

 

But the left continue harping, "it's jobs Americans won't take".

Well at least I won't be getting that (*)(*)(*)(*) you attitude from those pimpled face little creatures anymore. I would bet that robot knows how to say thank you, and be able to count your change back to you, unlike the little twits behind the counter today.

 

Imagine that, no idiot imported kid that couldn't get my order right.

 

Being that we have been destroyed by free trade and we are now 90% service based, there goes more jobs promised by the makers of the NWO

 

That mandatory minimum wage law sure taught Jack in the Box a lesson.......


Meanwhile, somewhere in America, a progressive is trying to figure out how to unionize these machines and have them vote for Obama.

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The thing is that it does not matter what the per hour rate paid to employees comes out to because a machine can be depreciated, is not covered by workers comp and can work 24 hour a day. One day business owners will stand in their highly automated businesses and wonder where their customers went, then they will realize that the machines that replaced many of their employees across the board don't buy food, clothes, homes or cars.

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The coke machine at work has an ACORN sticker on it...

 

This kind of stuff always happens and always will happen as our standard of living increases. It's called the free market and technological progress. How many people have lost their jobs in brick and mortar stores because of the Internet? I don't hear you complaining about the Internet.

Are you suggesting that we should use government force to stop the advancement of technology? Use government force to stop these companies from firing workers they don't need anymore?

Let's just nationalize all businesses. Let the government run everything and we'll stay stuck in the 20th century forever. What a brilliant idea!

 

Not at all.

The government COULD lead the way in research a technology intitiatives which could create jobs for the displaced workers, though.

The Right Wing like to pretend it never happened, but much of America's advancement occurred through subsidized science, technology, and production. Just as china is doing today, with ENORMOUS success.

I AM suggesting our political and business leaders do not sit on their butts and pretend everything is going to turn out OK for citizens without some planning and effort in a changing and very competitive world.

 

I agree. What's even more troubling is seeing conservatives complain about this. They should welcome the progress that the free market always brings to human advancement, and once more if they claim to support the free market, they should be aware that this sort of technological leap will always create a demand for more low-skilled jobs elsewhere in the economy to make up for where their low-skilled fast food restaurant job was made obsolete. It's almost like a total conservation law, except it applies to economics instead of physics.

 

I love my job. This kind of technology keeps me working.

 

Government doesn't generate progress. That is Collectivist propaganda. The free market, labor, and productivity does - none of which is government. Government is a leech, a dead short across the productive capacity of our economy. It misdirects and re-allocates funds to different areas of the economy that wouldn't have had it otherwise. And that's not to mention all of the money that is lost in bureaucratic corruption and waste.

Sure, SOME scientific and technological progress may have been made from government subsidies...but at what cost? Where did the money come from to do it? The answer is: taxes and money creation/debt/inflation. You claim that this so-called "progress" was done for the greater good of the greater number, but the rights of the individual was abused in order to acheive it. And now, we are paying the price for it: the economy is in the hole. DEEP in the hole. The individual is in trouble, and because of that, so is the greater number.

Some progress.

Central economic planning fails and government has only impeded the progress of the individual and humanity, just like organized religion. True progress can only be made through the free market.

 

As more of these robots do take over most of the work, I think you are going to need government control. Let's say there is 50% unemployment because humans are no longer useful as workers. What are you going to do with those 50%? Also, the top 1% would be making huge profits. So, you are going to need a lot of government control. It'll be an interesting transition going from human to robot workers. Once it is done though, things that are unimaginable will become possible. Hopefully it is done as fair and as fast as possible in the meantime.