Bye bye $15/hr min wage Fast Food jobs

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: TheKnightofDoom

I've brought this up several times.

We need to decide how society is going to function once we reach the post-occupational point.

Because it's coming sooner than many realize.

I think it starts with Sara Connor. We won't need McD's!

a reply to: Vasa Croe

You can twist this all you want to fit your own narrative, but these were in the works far longer than people were pushing for $15/hour wages in these places. It honestly doesn't matter what you do for a living, if they can find a way to replace you like this, then they will.

a reply to: Necrobile

Everyone is struggling even qualified dev's and engineers.

We are need to let our culture evolve which can't happen with all the monkey minds trying to pretend that there's 4 billion high paying jobs out there for everyone.

a reply to: watchitburn

Yes. When I was a little kid, the idea seemed to be that we would enter a Utopia where every need was catered for by machines and would spend our leisure time in luxury.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the way our machines are "helping" us as a population.

At what point, I wonder, will we become too expensive to keep?

Eventually, a scenario like the movie WALL-E will occur in the not too far future.

Lazy fatties on hover chairs.

originally posted by: 4003fireglo
You can still blame the cook for making it wrong. Not that I'd ever go to a McDonald's, but you know.

That is correct. They need to implement the robo-cooks as well.

You see, I like grilled cheese and I like hamburgers.... but I do NOT like cheeseburgers. I also don't like cheese on my tacos or burritos.

I'm SICK AND TIRED of either having to bring food back to the counter or worse, when I take it to go.... I'm sick and tired of basically throwing out food because some moron can not or will not comprehend the phrase, "no cheese."

The only option for a highly automated world is basic income for all people. Otherwise you end up with a nightmare scenario where only business owners accrue wealth and barrier to entry for new business owners is unbelievably high. At some point you realize people won't have jobs due to automation aren't lazy, they just can't lift 1000 lbs for every minute of the day, or they can't do advanced calculus in less than a second.

originally posted by: TheKnightofDoom
a reply to: DarkvsLight29

I don't want human robots I want them to look like robots or it will get weird....with robot voices also.
Mind you could be swayed with the Anita robot.

Lol true it would get weird, I want one of those Anita robots too, she's so good at playing the robot character that I'd probably feel strange if she was my wife in real life lol.

a reply to: Vasa Croe

The one and only secure job is computer programmer. Yet I don't fear for our future at all because the less jobs that are needed due to automation, firstly the cheaper growing your own food will be via robotics, and secondly the more money is available for charity. Of course all of this positive future depends entirely on a reduction in rampant immorality and corruption of society. We must stop people from taking other people's property including both money and land without their permission, or our future is bleak.

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Because kiosks weren't in development already? Do you honestly believe if people will just work for ever decreasing sums of money, corporations in their infinite benevolence will stop trying to reduce labor costs?

Ugh.

a reply to: watchitburn

We need to decide how society is going to function once we reach the post-occupational point.

Socialist "utopias," duh.

Automation is great, but sadly, I feel that virtual reality will take place of the labored environment we've all helped to create up to this point. Muscle atrophy will turn us into stick figures that live on a "credit system" where we earn points based upon how subservient and burdensome we are to the socialist system. The second episode of Black Mirror on Netflix demonstrates this well. I implore you to watch it if possible. It's scary...

And those machines extrude what?

I was really smashed in the city one night and staggered into Mc Donalds for a feed.
I had to order on one of those touch screens, I found it easy to use even when seeing double.
I puked in the toilets and my sunglasses plopped into the bowl, so I left and went partied some more.

a reply to: WhateverYouSay

We are already there.

Do you realize the amount of capital I would need to buy my own extruder or CNC machine to create my own products?

Astronomical.

Starting a business is already out of reach for everyone 30 and below.

originally posted by: chrismarco
And those machines extrude what?

Plastic.

PLA, APET, Polypropylene and other plastic products.

originally posted by: fractal5
a reply to: Vasa Croe

The one and only secure job is computer programmer. Yet I don't fear for our future at all because the less jobs that are needed due to automation, firstly the cheaper growing your own food will be via robotics, and secondly the more money is available for charity. Of course all of this positive future depends entirely on a reduction in rampant immorality and corruption of society. We must stop people from taking other people's property including both money and land without their permission, or our future is bleak.

Sorry your wrong the reality is for most experienced programmers it's already not a secure job anymore.

originally posted by: eluryh22
They need to implement the robo-cooks as well.

It won't be long:

Rise of the burger-flipping machines: Robots churn out 400 burgers an hour

Soon, the manager will be the only human being working inside a McDonald's.

originally posted by: luciferslight
Eventually, a scenario like the movie WALL-E will occur in the not too far future.

Lazy fatties on hover chairs.

Haha loved that bit (lazy fatties on hover chairs)

Hopefully i won't be around if that happens and I'd be very happy not to be lol.

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Greed, greed, and more is not enough!

I cook at home, I do not support GMO foods much less fast food to begin with.

Many Americans can not afford a college education I sure couldn't in my days, however I did ok and became an entrepreneur in restoring and selling antique telephones, mostly Western Electric.

What are people going to do for a living if this continues?

If the government would make education much cheaper, where everyone can get a college degree, then I can see some good come out of all this.

a reply to: Informer1958

So what will the tens of millions of low wage workers in America do?

25 million engineers?

Factoring in the laws of supply and demand what will that do?

What is currently happening to programmers wages?

100's of highly qualified and skilled applicants being offered 57k for a job that payed 157k five years ago.