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Why do you think a hamburger making machine is a bad thing? Automation in the long term is good for the economy, if it wasn't for automation those same teenager
by avar 14y ago
Why do you think a hamburger making machine is a bad thing? Automation in the long term is good for the economy, if it wasn't for automation those same teenagers would be manually plowing fields instead of flipping burgers.
If anything raising the minimum wage a bit should spur a lot of automation industries, and those same teenagers would be more likely to get an entry level job there, instead of at a menial job.
- cema 14y agoI guess the point is that, as the min wage grows, certain considerations that were not viable before become viable now, and as a consequence people who otherwise may have been considered for a job would no more, or would lose the job, or the job itself would disappear.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoAutomation in the long term is a good thing. However forcing automation by legal system is suboptimal for economy. Even in the long term.
- chaostheory 14y agoIt's not a bad thing for us. It's a bad for the people that minimum wage is supposedly trying to help. Increase minimum wage, decrease low skilled jobs, and increase mechanization.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoIt is a bad thing for us (software developers) too: yes, we would get a contract to automate these low-skilled guys jobs, but then who's going to pay for these low-skilled guys' unemployment? Besides, our automated solutions would still deliver higher-than-before prices, because if automation was cheaper, then low-skilled jobs would have been automated away without government's legal help.
- tsotha 14y ago>Why do you think a hamburger making machine is a bad thing? It's a bad thing if you pay the bills by making hamburgers.