"I told you so" - McDonald's to hire machines
"Hopefully, people will abandon their quest through forced higher wages via the government as their community suffers under the financial burden."
Is this a false hope due to the prevalence of looters?
Is this a false hope due to the prevalence of looters?
morality, and not in the rights of man. If we spread
Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal enough, maybe
we can change things.
The problem as Objectivism would see it is to act from the heart not from the head.
The cost of the machines is mostly capital, so once McD has bought them the operating cost is low. Should the error be seen and the minimum wage be abolished, the machines are still there, the jobs will not come back.
it was SO EASY to "build my burger" the way "I" wanted it. no mistakes.
And get this, I "built" my burger with Double meat, double cheese, DORITOS Chips, GRILLED ONIONs, Lettuce, Tomato, Jalapeno peppers, Pico d Galo, and lots of other stuff.
It was brought to me "open face"
they had one person working the register(s). They "would" take your order, but really pushed for you to step over to the Kiosk and order it yourself. Their job was to simply take your money once you order your own meal. (if you did not pay with a Credit Card right at the Kiosk)
Yes, me know! Me dino know!
Basic economics happened.
Yay, me dino's tiny brain be so smart!
And also being an allosaur dino monster--
--maybe I should cull some stupid the human herd.
To improve a prey species is what predators do.
An opportunity for those of us that are willing to work...they are going to need people to fix and keep running, those McChines.
I wonder how $15/hr likes $0/hr.
Don't be surprised to see McD's (I don't eat there ever) drop their prices a bit and extend their hours just to smooth things over.
Economists have known that for as long as there have been employees. So have retailers. So...why don't entry level fast food workers? Because they want something for nothing? Or they are ignorant? Or I want mine and you can go to hell? All of the above? Automation is the child of unions. The grandchildren to economic ignorance.
You know, I just had some home-made turkey burgers. Made them on my Weber. They were pretty good.
McD's food is pretty bad. It already tastes like machines make it. It was a little different in my youth. The egg mcmuffin isn't bad in a pinch.
It got me to thinking, what if they mechanized the number one business in the world? What would happen to all the people currently working in that industry, could they be put totally out of work? It's also surprising how it has stayed so viable all these centuries especially with the ability to just do it yourself. Sorry, but that might be proof of McD's effect on my brain. The government should appoint a commission to study the effects of eating this stuff. Perhaps they already do.
In addition, I am moving labor intensive operations that cant be automated economically to China on a continual basis. Costs there are so low compared with USA labor costs that its an imperative to remain competitive.