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> Once it works in SF with high wages it works in Montana with low wages. Can it? The robot in SF may make financial sense because of high utilization. A low
by OldHand2018 6y ago
> Once it works in SF with high wages it works in Montana with low wages.
Can it? The robot in SF may make financial sense because of high utilization. A low-wage worker can do 100+ useful tasks when the restaurant is not busy enough to require constant burger making. Is a burger-making robot flexible enough to match that?
- bluGill 6y agoThe robot can also sit around doing nothing without complaint and for no extra cost. So the robot need not be used 100% of the time. Even in SF the robot will not be used much at 2am. Though I was referring to the small cities in Montana. Nobody will put a robotic burger joint where there are no people. However a town of 5000 has a lot of people who need to eat, more than enough to make it worth running numbers.
- 908B64B197 6y agoIt won't replace all employees. It'll just replace some.