So it begins- Wendy's To Switch To Self Ordering and Automation To Avoid $15/hr Wage hike

[Black_Jesus]

and this will likely just result in more layoffs

breh did you even read the title or article. Once they've reached the point of self ordering and automation all these employees who wanted a raise would've already been layed off.

 

[Koba St]

How do these companies expect people to buy their products if no one has a job? good luck convincing a robot to buy your overpriced sneakers

 

[SanchoPanda]

You would think these corporations are living paycheck to paycheck just like their employees when you watch their actions.
Then you remember they are massive conglomerates that see making 1$ less in a fiscal quarter as a emergency and fire people and send their life into chaos to please the shareholders.

While cashing their million dollar checks.

 

[Brozay]

breh did you even read the title or article. Once they've reached the point of self ordering and automation all these employees who wanted a raise would've already been layed off.

and if revenue was declining, they will find ways to lay off even more people

 

[Blackout]

Yes, there needs to be some sort of balance. We had that balance in the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was doing great WHILE corporate regulation was strong and corporate/wealthy taxes were high AND worker wages were fantastic. The working class did just awesome in the 1960s, especially when Kennedy/Johnson were president. Minimum wage and average wage were both much higher than they are today.

That was also the stage in US history that the population in general was happiest and had the lowest incidence of mental health issues, FWIW.

Every since corporate deregulation and tax breaks for the wealthy became a huge thing in the 1980s, the state of working-class people has been stagnating or dropping while the profits of the top 1%, top 0.1%, and top 0.01% have been shooting through the roof.

I suggest you read Larry Bartel's "Unequal Democracy" for a run-down of take-home income from the late 1940s through the mid-2000s. He tracks who made what kinds of incomes at different times, and how the economy was doing during those times. The crazy thing is that from 2006 (the end of his data) through 2015, the situation has only multiplied.

Reagan...

 

[Black_Jesus]

and if revenue was declining, they will find ways to lay off even more people

What people breh?.. Everything is automated and self serviced..

You would continue to support a business that layed off all the employees that actually cook and prepare the food?

 

[Xerces]

let me just say about touch screens:

is anyone here prepared to use a touch screen in a fukkin wendys to order food, and then eat that food with your hands

is going to the bathroom to wash your hands too hard? The fact you touched the handle to the door opening the establishment and went and ate your food without washing is


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[Brozay]

What people breh?.. Everything is automated and self serviced..

You would continue to support a business that layed off all the employees that actually cook and prepare the food?

breh, they arent going to be able to automate the entire process. there will still be plenty of folks working at these spots

 

[Listen]

Yes, there needs to be some sort of balance. We had that balance in the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was doing great WHILE corporate regulation was strong and corporate/wealthy taxes were high AND worker wages were fantastic. The working class did just awesome in the 1960s, especially when Kennedy/Johnson were president. Minimum wage and average wage were both much higher than they are today.

That was also the stage in US history that the population in general was happiest and had the lowest incidence of mental health issues, FWIW.

Every since corporate deregulation and tax breaks for the wealthy became a huge thing in the 1980s, the state of working-class people has been stagnating or dropping while the profits of the top 1%, top 0.1%, and top 0.01% have been shooting through the roof.

I suggest you read Larry Bartel's "Unequal Democracy" for a run-down of take-home income from the late 1940s through the mid-2000s. He tracks who made what kinds of incomes at different times, and how the economy was doing during those times. The crazy thing is that from 2006 (the end of his data) through 2015, the situation has only multiplied.

This is the clear and only answer. The only time the government stepping in works is when its at a systematic level that resets the playing field that ALL businesses have to operate on.

Think about why trickle down economics doesn't work....and corporate tax breaks are the best instance of viewing this. Companies always do what is in their best interest, so when they are a public company and they have investors and you give them a tax break, its in their best interest to keep the tax break as a way to increase profits for the bottom line, NOT to take that tax break and trickle it down through out the entire company to lower their profitability.

Imagine if we had no antitrust laws what this mess would look like. The government seems to do its best for the citizens it serves when it stops trying to throw patchwork legislation together in various areas, and instead focuses on a few, simple but universal regulations.

 

[the cac mamba]

is going to the bathroom to wash your hands too hard? The fact you touched the handle to the door opening the establishment and went and ate your food without washing is


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so how do you leave the bathroom didnt know there were automatic doors

yo fukk all this anyway id rather order it from a person, sorry. you're gonna have a bunch of retards who cant figure out the machine take 5 minutes to order. i think it sounds terrible

 

[151_Pr00f]

Some people in here are advocates for slavery. Whole Foods paying prisoners 70 cents a day to contract for private prisons and rake in millions.

Whole Foods, Expensive Cheese, and the Dilemma of Cheap Prison Labor | VICE News

Meanwhile that job would help support an individual on the outside unable to find work (If they paid a living wage)

But would the same people who don't see any value in a living wage advocate people making 70 cents a day? I guess because it's unskilled labor it doesn't matter.....

fukk that.... that's just straight up exploitation

 

[Houston911]

Boy, it's going to be hilarious when these white collar/middle class jobs get outsourced/automated.

"Bu bu bu but they can't replace us, we be smart and skilled."

A punjab named Rajeev is writing your replacement right now. And I have seen quite a few of you brag about how much money you make in comparison to how little work you do. Do you think corporations are okay with that? A lot of us are going to be in our 40s wondering what the fukk happened.

They just dont get it fam.

If you told the average coli poster

"Your current salary is 100k. You can either work at mcdonalds for the same pay or continue doing your current job."

If the hours were the same i truly believe most people would keep their current job

Fast food workers have to put up with a lot of sh*t. The bathrooms are disgusting and the environment is depressing.

A lot of peoples jobs will be gone in the next 10-20 years.

Im bout to start a coli escort service so im ahead of the game.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

How do we do that?

Free trade schools and public colleges.... more apprenticeships.... more career/skills focused training in high schools.

 

[PortCityProphet]

thats what im sayin. the line is gonna be a line at the touch screen, and then a line at the bathroom to wash your fukkin hands? seems wack to me

So you saying the people who are in line now and don't wash their hands are gonna suddenly realize their hands are dirty and start washing their hands?
They gon be the same filthy muafukkas they are now

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

So what? That's the objective of technology - to make less work for humans.

Instead of focusing on the jobs lost, think about how this opens up opportunities for more skilled labor in IT.

Do u not realize how half of jobs being taken by robots will destroy our current economy and social structure...

Granted I believe a universal basic income will help alleviate that when it comes to that point but it's no telling if/when our flawed was government would do something so drastic