McDonald's Opens First Largely Automated Location

[esmith]

McDonald's opens largely automated location outside Fort Worth Texas. Does this foretell the loss of millions of jobs in other like industries?


McDonald's unveils first automated location, social media worried it will cut 'millions' of jobs

 

[Revoltingest]

McDonald's opens largely automated location outside Fort Worth Texas. Does this foretell the loss of millions of jobs in other like industries?

Yes.
Fans of a greatly raised minimum wage are greasing the skids.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Yes.
Fans of a greatly raised minimum wage are greasing the skids.

Not that I'm a fan of it, but I agree it was bound to happen. It was either that or price increase, but it seems we got both.

 

[Revoltingest]

Not that I'm a fan of it, but I agree it was bound to happen. It was either that or price increase, but it seems we got both.

Automation in fast food will keep prices down
relative to what they'd be with spendier labor.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Yes.
Fans of a greatly raised minimum wage are greasing the skids.

I still say,

"Why not both?"

Automate, and increase minimum wage for those who want to work, both. Then introduce Universal Basic Income, and free healthcare, and make Elon pay through the nose in taxes, etc.

 

[Revoltingest]

I still say,

"Why not both?"

Automate, and increase minimum wage for those who want to work, both. Then introduce Universal Basic Income, and free healthcare, and make Elon pay through the nose in taxes, etc.

More & more people will cost more than they're
worth, thereby becoming unemployable. They'll
go on the dole.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

More & more people will cost more than they're
worth, thereby becoming unemployable. They'll
go on the dole.

Let them make their money, or stay home and collect less money. Then have a cap on how much money a person can have. Reduce the power of the upper class that way & try to increase power elsewhere.

 

[danieldemol]

McDonald's opens largely automated location outside Fort Worth Texas. Does this foretell the loss of millions of jobs in other like industries?


McDonald's unveils first automated location, social media worried it will cut 'millions' of jobs

In my opinion hopefullly it foretells the need for a universal basic income once we are in a post human work society.

 

[Shaul]

I still say,

"Why not both?"

Automate, and increase minimum wage for those who want to work, both. Then introduce Universal Basic Income, and free healthcare, and make Elon pay through the nose in taxes, etc.

Don't stop, you are on a roll. Add free foot massages, unicorn rides and rainbow stew.

 

[Stevicus]

McDonald's opens largely automated location outside Fort Worth Texas. Does this foretell the loss of millions of jobs in other like industries?


McDonald's unveils first automated location, social media worried it will cut 'millions' of jobs

Probably at some point. Why would they spend money on human labor when they can have it done by machine? I still think they're pushing it a bit, at least in overestimating the capabilities of AI, as I find out any time I have to call some company with automated voice system. But I expect it will get better in time.

Who knows? This could be the beginning of the end, as Skynet starts first by taking over McDonald's. When it starts building an army of Terminators, they'll all look like Ronald McDonald.

 

[Revoltingest]

Let them make their money, or stay home and collect less money. Then have a cap on how much money a person can have. Reduce the power of the upper class that way & try to increase power elsewhere.

Better than raising the min wage would
be minimum government provided income
for all (IMO).

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Better than raising the min wage would
be minimum government provided income
for all (IMO).

That might be an option.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Don't stop, you are on a roll. Add free foot massages, unicorn rides and rainbow stew.

And silver spoon:

 

[sun rise]

Automation will keep spreading. Why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on a lawyer when a chat AI can do it all for you. I'm sure the eloi will not care what happens to the morlocks.

 

[Heyo]

McDonald's opens largely automated location outside Fort Worth Texas. Does this foretell the loss of millions of jobs in other like industries?

I've predicted this for some time now. And it will not only be in low education, low skill jobs. AI will make even jobs obsolete that required a degree or years of experience until now.
And unlike the last industrial revolutions, there are no higher qualified jobs people can migrate to. The only solution is an UBI of some sort, financed by the work of the machines.

 

[idea]

Wasn't it Star Trek who envisioned a society without money, Imagine being able to travel, read, ride bikes, talk, anything you wanted.

Carpe Diem, I'm a fan of embracing technology, believe it can lead to a higher quality of life for all.

 

[Twilight Hue]

McDonald's opens largely automated location outside Fort Worth Texas. Does this foretell the loss of millions of jobs in other like industries?


McDonald's unveils first automated location, social media worried it will cut 'millions' of jobs

Can it really be called a job?

A job for me is someplace that a person could stay with all the way to to retirement.

Almost everyone who works there seem miserable and depressed.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Better than raising the min wage would
be minimum government provided income
for all (IMO).

Something has to bottom out.

It's people that go to restaurants and stores and the like and spend their paycheck that keeps those businesses in the black.

Ai dosent have those needs. They have no paychecks. Just payments for purchase and maintenance.

 

[Twilight Hue]

More & more people will cost more than they're
worth, thereby becoming unemployable. They'll
go on the dole.

And dependent on their benefactor.

Like selling ones soul to the devil.

 

[Revoltingest]

And dependent on their benefactor.

Like selling ones soul to the devil.

Would you let unproductive citizens
depend upon charity...or just starve?
A minimum basic income would let them
survive. And the lack of a min wage would
allow them to find work to supplement
gubmint income.
This appears to be the best of bad
solutions available to us.