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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I still can't understand why the garbage trucks with their new claw-grabber-dumper mechanisms aren't reading a bar code on my trash bin or recycling bin, then weighing the net contents and charging me accordingly!
Ah, maybe some day...
Because I knew that, as soon as the strike ended, the toll rates would go up.
In the end, automatic toll collection machines replaced virtually all of the toll booth coin collectors and probably shifted just part of their previous total cost to the maintenance folks that serviced the machines.
McDonalds is just a few years late to the realization, but the $15/hour strikes and protests are undoubtedly the driving force for Change (no pun intended) today.
Hey, Obama wanted Change, didn't he? McDonald's is now going to further automate it!
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.
I wish I could publish their names and addresses. Wanna bet the Occupy folks could do some good by picketing there?
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