• Carl's Jr (and Hardee's) CEO wants to open a restaurant staffed entirely by robots
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[QUOTE=Starpluck;49954346]While this is a neat idea that I would be interested in seeing it due the unprecedented futuristic innovation associated with it, this guys motives and logic is pure shit.[/QUOTE] Well, a higher minimum wage does lead to fewer jobs, that's just how economics works.
[QUOTE=Mallow234;49966441]Well, a higher minimum wage does lead to fewer jobs, that's just how economics works.[/QUOTE] This is kind of a fallacy. Some people present the situation as though companies actually have shitloads of empty positions that they're just dying to fill but they can't because the big bad government won't let them pay their employees less, which I don't really think is the case. Of course there are going to be fewer jobs by some margin, but ultimately the tasks that a business needs to be done still need to be done regardless of how much they are legally required to pay their employees. They aren't just going to let their workplace be a filthy mess because they would be required to pay their janitors a living wage, they aren't going to just not have anyone serve their customers because they would have to pay their cashiers and waiters a living wage, etc. Furthermore a business is most likely not going to hire more people that it actually needs to to function just because it can get away with paying them less. More than likely that money is just going to be spent elsewhere or hell, for that matter, just tucked away. In regards to minimum wage jobs, anyway.
I love how he wants to go the route of an all robotic restaurant (which will reduce employment opportunities) because of an increasing minimum wage, which hasn't reduced unemployment opportunities, when he's written op-eds about how an increasing minimum wage will reduce employment opportunities. Good job on that self fulfilling prophecy, bucko. But could you maybe not fuck over the workforce by removing a set of jobs just because you're too cheap to pay a livable wage?
Nan-ni Shimasu-ka? [editline]22nd March 2016[/editline] [video=youtube;ng8DGTM5Crg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng8DGTM5Crg[/video]
The rise of automation and the replacement of menial jobs is completely unavoidable. Whether Mr. Carl Jr's motives are financial doesn't matter. Any effort to try and delay the rise of this wave of automation will end up being fruitless. Governments, economies and society should be ready to adapt to the coming change in how people work. Instead you have a bunch of politicians in most countries talking about stupid, redundant shit. Just imagine the number of people who are solely employed as a result of the trucking industry (the logistics side, gas stations, 24/7 restaurants etc). As soon as automation begins to hit world economies it will result in unavoidable change.
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