New McDonald's In Phoenix Run Entirely By Robots
Moochers want $15 min. wage...they now get nothing. Anyone could see this coming. Already in this article one person is saying "burn it down"
I'm curious where in Phoenix this will be built. Haven't been to McDonald's in years
I'm curious where in Phoenix this will be built. Haven't been to McDonald's in years
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Great perks: I could lunch on whatever I cooked. Plus there was a full video arcade. :)
talk show in Richmond, Va., and the screener
took my comment, but wouldn't put me on the
air; he never does. (Just once, he did).
I wish I could publish their names and addresses. Wanna bet the Occupy folks could do some good by picketing there?
“The McDonald’s had my resume, I already completed two job interviews there and they said I was scheduled to work once the new store opened but they never called,” Waddams said. “I need a job I said, and I was told by Betty in HR they have my resume on file, but they never called, and Sandra told me to talk to Bill, and then I hear of the robots instead of regular humans and that’s not what I asked for. And I need the job I told them, but there’s robots, so now I’m going to have to find another place of employment. And they were big giant robots, and I said no, no robots at McDonald’s. I could set the building on fire.”
I'm SOOO going to eat there, if so. Oh, yeah.
:)
I found "Shadows Live Under Seashells" to be eerily spot on. http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Under-Seas...
Automated stores, like McD's, will add to the welfare rolls in the short term. Hopefully, this long overdue automation will cause young people to position themselves to take advantage of (capitalize on) the opportunities it presents.
Thanks for the plug. :)
Robotizing a place like McDonalds, assuming the machines do the job well, is a huge productivity increase -- instead of each employee producing a few tens of burgers an hour, each employee (who now have to be robot technicians) indirectly produces millions.
But meanwhile, the displaced cooks have not disappeared from the market. They just have to retrain and find a job they can do. Of course, the new minimum wage may have made them not worth hiring -- in which case, they will either have to go into business for themselves (thus legally avoiding the law by not being anyone's employees) or find someone who will hire them under the table. Most likely the latter.
This is how countries become banana republics. Go to any country in Latin America, and you'll find that every kind of business is so over-regulated and over-taxed (including bribes that must be paid to cops and bureaucrats galore, to get permits to operate legally) that none of them operate legally. They're all black-market. Which means that the state mostly can't collect taxes, so government funds itself by printing money, and inflation is hundreds of percent per year.
As for your last question, people on welfare have so many kids because the government is making you and me pay them to have them. The cycle of welfare dependence will only stop when government stops paying them to breed and starts taking the kids away instead. Put them in foster care somewhere, so they'll have a future.