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Even if something like food service at McDonald's is automated, it's tough to argue that we should be getting humans to work on things that can be automated. I

by judge2020 4y ago

Even if something like food service at McDonald's is automated, it's tough to argue that we should be getting humans to work on things that can be automated. Imagine working 40 hours a week then seeing that the machine both prepared more product and made fewer mistakes than you, or feeling like you're doing work just because someone (the government) pities you enough to force some jobs to remain non-automated. Working with more complex, higher-skilled work that makes you feel like you're improving the lives of others is what our brains crave, not repeating menial tasks over and over again.

fundad 4y ago
Order-taking is miles apart from the actual prep, cooking and serving. Imagine owning AND MAINTAINING a machine that can do all of that with less combined labor and expense.
Damogran6 4y ago
The problem with that is that there are people that are more or less intelligent and more or less motivated. There's NOTHING wrong with the occasional menial task, and there's nothing wrong with being unmotivated, so long as it's not a net negative drain on society. Once everything is automated away, I suspect it won't be the Star Trekian Utopia we'd like.
- akiselev 4y ago
  > Once everything is automated away, I suspect it won't be the Star Trekian Utopia we'd like. The Star Trekian utopia grew out of a 21st century devastated by a world war that saw a third of the Earth's population wiped out so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
hotpotamus 4y ago
> Imagine working 40 hours a week then seeing that the machine both prepared more product and made fewer mistakes than you The Ballad of John Henry is Civil War era, but even he was a century or two after the Luddites started wrecking automated weaving machines. It's actually been a feature of the Industrial Revolution for awhile, but I think the effects are more pronounced now than ever.

fundad 4y ago

Order-taking is miles apart from the actual prep, cooking and serving. Imagine owning AND MAINTAINING a machine that can do all of that with less combined labor and expense.

Damogran6 4y ago

The problem with that is that there are people that are more or less intelligent and more or less motivated. There's NOTHING wrong with the occasional menial task, and there's nothing wrong with being unmotivated, so long as it's not a net negative drain on society. Once everything is automated away, I suspect it won't be the Star Trekian Utopia we'd like.

akiselev 4y ago
> Once everything is automated away, I suspect it won't be the Star Trekian Utopia we'd like. The Star Trekian utopia grew out of a 21st century devastated by a world war that saw a third of the Earth's population wiped out so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hotpotamus 4y ago

> Imagine working 40 hours a week then seeing that the machine both prepared more product and made fewer mistakes than you The Ballad of John Henry is Civil War era, but even he was a century or two after the Luddites started wrecking automated weaving machines. It's actually been a feature of the Industrial Revolution for awhile, but I think the effects are more pronounced now than ever.