>It's not just robots. It's been 6+ months since I've used a human cashier at McDonald's. This is actually the return of a very old technology that went out of

>It's not just robots. It's been 6+ months since I've used a human cashier at McDonald's. This is actually the return of a very old technology that went out of vogue in the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat >It's certainly possible (and probably likely) that freeing up people to do more important work is a net benefit in the long term. In the interim, there will be plenty of people upset that there currently aren't enough jobs for everyone who wants to work. We have crumbling infrastructure and low inflation and a severe lack of adequately paid jobs at the same time. That isn't an unfortunate side effect of technological advancement that's gross economic mismanagement and abuse of political power.