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Is it really likely that we need a system like McDonald's to get a burger made? I make a pretty fine burger, myself. And my own bread, for the buns. But if y
by bdunbar 15y ago
Is it really likely that we need a system like McDonald's to get a burger made?
I make a pretty fine burger, myself. And my own bread, for the buns.
But if you want to deliver a consistent product across thousands of stores for a reasonable price, you need standards, managers, guys behind the counter performing to task and standard. So you can walk into a restaurant in Bangor or in Spokane and know what you're getting.
Yet .... I can't deliver a home-cooked burger without the same structure McDonald's uses.
I get my meat from a butcher who gets it from some other guy and so on on back to Bossie in the pasture. That's one thing out of hundreds of bits that make up daily life.
We all of us depend on millions of others doing things to task and standard just to exist - it's baked into the bones of our society.
I don't think you can just get rid of it without building a system to take it's place.
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- shykes 15y agoMaybe this tells us that the staff of a McDonald's restaurant could conceivably be replaced by software, whereas Valve will always require human beings to do its work?
- bdunbar 15y agoreplaced by software See also Marshall Brain 'Manna'. Conceivably, yes. But I don't see it, or not real soon. Automation even in a controlled environment is tricky, and random customers are _random_. You have people there to handle exceptions, which are many.