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Automation is inevitable regardless. Keeping wages low will not prevent McDonalds from implementation labor-saving technologies.
by misterbishop 11y ago
Automation is inevitable regardless. Keeping wages low will not prevent McDonalds from implementation labor-saving technologies.
- Domenic_S 11y agoIt will dictate when the labor-saving technology is cheaper than cheap human labor. If fast food workers were making $200/hour, it would probably be cheaper to replace them with robots today. Keeping that inflection point far away gives us time to solve other issues (like housing affordability) that will impact the minimum-wage class of workers extremely hard when they're automated out.
- kushti 11y agoExpensive labor helps automation a lot. It's the question of economy after all, if humans are cheaper than robots, there's a little incentive to spend money on deploying the bots.