Thanks to Democrats pushing for high hourly wages, good part-time second jobs will disappear. It might have happened anyway, but mandatory increases in wages certainly sped up. California is pushing the hourly wage to $20 an hour.
McDonald’s now has at least one fully automated restaurant. The union will lose members and dues. The EU has a solution for that. They want to unionize the robots.
This started in 2017 for McDonald’s.
McDonald’s planned to replace 2500 human cashiers with digital kiosks years ago, and they’ve been working on it. Partly, they were spurred on to replace human beings after Democrats began demanding living wages for menial labor.
Futurists predict machines will take over half of low-level jobs and as much as seventy percent of menial agricultural jobs. That should tell people two things. One, we don’t need all that illegal alien labor, and two, the living wage for menial jobs will soon be a talking point in need of a replacement.
McDonald’s has a fully automated restaurant with zero human workers. This is the future of fast food. pic.twitter.com/NI1joFbAqV
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) January 6, 2024
Inner city thugs will destroy these places with impunity,
McDonalds will be lucky to survive to 2025.
Aside from the crippling minimum wage and benefits costs, there are the issues of dealing with cash. Aside from theft, probably more than half of their employees can’t count out correct change, even if the register tells them how much it is.
The real minimum wage has always been zero.
Given that more than half the time all these fast food workers get your order wrong, I’m all for full automation.
The inevitable culmination of a “minimum wage” set by fiat instead of established by the market. On the plus side…you can order a Big Mac without having a lowlife spit (or worse) in your food.
Bet that Mickey D’s loosens your stool
I will choose to go to the fast food place, which I can interact with a human being who can correct the mistaken food items I’ve paid for, or I won’t go at all. I have been told since the ’70’s how great life would be with computers assisting and I’ve yet to see this modern utopia actually work right, if not, computers have only made my life a living hell on earth because nothing works as intended.
I can’t even make a comment here – because of recapta errors thinks I’m a robot.
A computer will probably to this particular job better than the usual McD’s degenerates.
When I can walk up to a kiosk and say, “I’d like a number 5 with cheese, make the drink a diet Pepsi, and cole slaw instead of fries”, THEN I’ll start using kiosks. Voice recognition or nothing for me. I’m not going to spend time “learning” each store’s kiosk screen, which buttons to tap, how to make substitutions, etc. if you want my money, you’ll “do it my way.”
That’s Burger King. You better hurry though, I hear they’re in trouble.
Narrator:
You vill take z Big Mac, you vill eat z Big Mac, and you vill be grateful for z Big Mac! (It vill suk, ve will make it with bugs, but it vill suk for everyone, so we will have achieved equality of all possible outcomes for all peoples, as there is but one, that being failure! DEI!
(Maniacal evil globalist laughter slowly fading in the distance.)
No just McDonalds, most of the fast food restaurants.
They will likely end up being much alike, different food just being different programs for the robots.
Just wait until you find out, now or eventually that these McDonald’s and other restaurants are 3D printing your food.
spongebob episode…
All the “highly automated kitchen and machines” must be installed by humans. Also, if something is broken, a human will need to repair it. Skilled labor like electricians is where the money is to be made!
That’s true, but are you expecting these low-motivation employees to get educated in robotics and engineering?
At best, low motivation employees will no longer work, living on a universal basic income in communal housing, with minimal – if any – socialist health care.
Expect “black box” type of electronics and electrical wiring, with factory made prefabricated construction.
Most apartment buildings are already essentially factory made with parts assembled on site.
This will likely mean even construction made offshore, and assembled on site.
Humans will likely be increasingly out of the loop.
It used to be a mechanic could take apart a car and put it back together, but now many computers, black boxes and sensors so the human mechanic is increasingly dependent on diagnostics and black boxes.
I hope you’re right about skilled laborers making good wages.
Diagnostics tools are essential for a mechanic and electricians. Guessing can be expensive if you’re wrong.
My son is a journeyman electrician. He wanted to be a game warden out of high school, and I convinced him to go to a tech school to learn industrial electrical. After he finished school. he worked with my brother and his cousin that own an electrical contracting business. I do the bookkeeping for them. My brother, a master electrician, trained him. They worked industrial maintenance jobs like GAF and Owens Corning. Also, they did new FedEx installations with conveyors and robotics. He was making $120,000 a few years ago, but he quit and is now working with Chemtall in maintenance making $35/hr with excellent benefits. He took a pay cut to change jobs, but he doesn’t have to travel and work as much hours.
Those higher wages are working out well, right? Maybe the robot even says Thank You or have a nice day.
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