McDonald's Opens First Largely Automated Location

[Revoltingest]

True, and I don't disagree. But there are times when a car (or better public transport) is nearly a requirement to survive. Here in Maine, public transportation is either haphazard or non-existent, and in the majority of Maine, living by where you work is impossible. One could move, of course, but that takes money and could result in leaving resources like family and friends behind for uncertainty. Often, this means cobbling together rides, which many of us have to do.

If you contribute to the community it should not leave you without the resources you need to participate just so folks can profit beyond even extravagant comfort.

Moving does require money, but I just
don't believe that it's impossible to move.
If someone has nothing, staying in one
offers no advantage. And having nothing
makes moving pretty cheap.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Also, many folks don't use their college degrees. Mea culpa.

Kind of a waste of an education. Don't ya think?

 

[Sand Dancer]

Or maybe go work for the government, I guess, if jobs look more available in that direction. So then I guess, AI will do all the work, and maybe we'll have a huge military?

But really, I think what has to be done would be earlier training for starter jobs. A hundred years before, not going to college was not a problem, and that was because the state trained you to at least be able to be ready for a job, when you were released from basic education. So in other words, I think the state should be responsible for making people ready for tech jobs once they graduate high school, and that can be the new coal mining. Far more advanced jobs, then, like building space ships, can be what college people get.

Kind of a waste of an education. Don't ya think?

I guess it depends on the reason. I have a Master's degree I didn't use because my son was born while I was in school, and though I took time off, then went part time, I was a stay at home mom after that, and I don't regret it. I guess any parents paying for the schooling would probably regret it a lot.

 

[Shaul]

I loathe self-checkout. It's fine if you only have a small handful of items, but very tedious if you're buying one or two weeks worth of groceries, and other shoppers tend to be extremely slow with the process, which holds up the line.

It can also be risky. There have been many cases of innocent people being falsely accused of shoplifting after mishaps using self checkout.

 

[metis]

The trouble is, the choice may end up disappearing. Here in the UK, the number of staffed tills in shops is plummeting, compared to serve-yourself tills which are rocketing. Currently you often end up choosing between the one "human till" with a queue of shoppers or quickly going through one of the numerous automated tills. This big switch has come about in just the last couple of years. What when the last human till disappears?

I hear ya, but my wife's and my shopping has already changed, thus we're spending more $ at smaller mom & pop stores nowadays.