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> We're moving to a world that most restaurants won't have servers taking your food and drinks order. This is already happening in Seattle Seattle isn’t the wo
by oceanplexian 2y ago
> We're moving to a world that most restaurants won't have servers taking your food and drinks order. This is already happening in Seattle
Seattle isn’t the world, it’s not even representative of the USA. Like California they have enacted regulations and policy which resulted in widespread crime and homelessness, the shuttering of small business, and population decline.
The reason you have stuff like robots taking orders or kitchen staff waiting tables isn’t because the progressive utopia has been realized, it’s because there is no such thing as free lunch and those people got fired and kicked to the curb while the remaining employees were forced to do more work.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoYou have a kernel of an idea that I agree with but 80% of your post is irrelevant culture war nonsense that can't be taken seriously and doesn't fit with your main point. If you picked some random Seattle person on the street I'm sure they'd agree with you that management underhires and keeps people overworked.
- gibbitz 2y agoI think shuttered businesses are fine. If they can't provide services that are worth the wage of employees they're just dragging the economy like a parasite. I think we're too quick to blame regulations for business failures. This kind of move for businesses feels like trying to cut losses not identify new revenue streams. This should have seemed inevitable when Starbucks opened on every streetcorner that they would eventually have to cut wages and resort to app ordering. The problem with this is it's lowering consumer expectations and new businesses have the infrastructure and financial need to follow their lead, leaving vulnerable service workers in the dust.