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Given the previous reactions to any sort of move by fast food chains toward anything like automation, I can't imagine this won't be picked up as fodder for the
by Roodgorf 9y ago
Given the previous reactions to any sort of move by fast food chains toward anything like automation, I can't imagine this won't be picked up as fodder for the "look what happens when you ask for a living wage" contingent.
- criddell 9y agoYou don't think wages have any effect on the decision to automate? I will always vote for raising the minimum wage but at the same time I know it probably makes automation more attractive.
- Roodgorf 9y agoI don't think it has as extreme an impact as the people posting images of a self-service menu imply it does. I will concede that a lot of my aversion to the argument is from the disdain for people with lower-class jobs that I read into it. But while I agree there is an impact, I also don't think we should avoid automation simply to have someone doing a mindless job if it could effectively be automated. People don't necessarily need jobs, they need the resources that having a job allows them access to.
- gwatch 9y ago"lot of my aversion to the argument is from the disdain for people with lower-class jobs that I read into it". Trying to read someone's mind is a tell for someone brainwashed. Do you think people who argue that raising minimum wage speeds up automation and hurts the people it intends to help, are making the argument in bad faith, and not based on data? Maybe you cannot argue based on facts and so instead you are attacking the character of people arguing against your socialist position.