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>Raise the minimum wage and you'll see a lot more robots and kiosks. Good. Humans have no business doing what robots can do anyway. The question remains: How
by intopieces 11y ago
>Raise the minimum wage and you'll see a lot more robots and kiosks.
Good. Humans have no business doing what robots can do anyway.
The question remains: How do we adapt the humans who lost their jobs? And before you write them off as 'unskilled,' remember that your job could just as easily be next.
- sokoloff 11y agoWith a minimum wage high enough that there is nothing they can do that's worth that amount in the employment market, their options are to be unemployed or to work as an entrepreneur, independent contractor, or some other arrangement (possible quasi or not legal) that works around the minimum wage law. In that way, they can use the skills and effort they have to a productive end, even if no one will bid the minimum wage rate for those services. If the job I'm doing now is "next" (I don't think the job is "mine" in any possessive sense), I would have to step back and figure out what my next best option is. I'm quite sure that absent the utter collapse of civilization, that I'll figure something out and be fine.