The Future of Fast Food / Workplace Automation
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Steve, it's best to add some commentary and usually an article to start a thread rather than just post a video, although your video does open up the possibility of discussion about the role and future of automation in the workplace and how that affects workers (I've changed the thread title a bit to reflect that).
What are your thoughts about the issue?
What are your thoughts about the issue?
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Agreed, that is neat! I like the idea behind it. Regarding automation and low paying, low skilled jobs, this is only going to continue. Having two or three machines to handle all of the orders, without getting it wrong, without texting on their phones, without needing first day training, or having to go home early for being sick, it just makes sense. The job market will have to adjust.
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Very true. The U.S. has a poor system for handling such things, so I'm not sure how well any transition will go, but my money would be on "not."
Not just unskilled workers. My job requires a MINIMUM of a B.A., and at least several years teaching or in testing administration. And yet, my job is now also partially automated. I went from a full-time temp/contract worker with overtime to a part-time temp with no overtime. Luckily, I'm a supervisor, so I still average about 3 days a week but some of the grunts only average about two. Some of "grunts" are Phds--retired or trying to supplement a teaching income.
steveda19
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Im trying to stay out of politics. Political discussions is against the rules here. So ill say a lil bit. Its the Minimum Wage issue. These workers want $15 a hour. But i say you don't have to work at McDonalds. In fact if you want higher wages.Go work in Wal-mart if you want $15 an hour.
No they're not. You can't flame people if you get into an argument about it, but you're perfectly free to discuss politics in Miscellaneous.
The problem with minimum wage is paying for rent. I had a job that paid three dollars over my state's minimum wage and 65% of my monthly income went to paying rent. Luckily, I'm still young and in my 20's, so I'm in good health and I don't have a family. If I was a single mother with serious back problems that extra 30% of my income would have to stretch far enough to encompass feeding me, my baby, my baby's schooling, and health issues between the two of us. I'll give you a spoiler: It wouldn't stretch that far.
As for Dr. Severin's question, that's really going to be the issue of our coming times. I have a funny feeling that Occupy Wallstreet will eventually be seen as a pre-cursor shockwave of a much larger social earthquake.
I feel Auntie's pain, too. I have a B.A. degree and I've spent three and a half of my five years out of college unemployed or under-employed. While I was fully employed, I was working in the Standardized testing industry, grading student written essays, and guess what -- they were prototyping AI that could do my job. (And in fact, did score most of the essays. The 30 humans with the job were a sort of baseline check for the AI.) Eventually they decided they didn't need as many human scorers, and I was out of a job. Right now I'm looking for seasonal work.
As for Dr. Severin's question, that's really going to be the issue of our coming times. I have a funny feeling that Occupy Wallstreet will eventually be seen as a pre-cursor shockwave of a much larger social earthquake.
I feel Auntie's pain, too. I have a B.A. degree and I've spent three and a half of my five years out of college unemployed or under-employed. While I was fully employed, I was working in the Standardized testing industry, grading student written essays, and guess what -- they were prototyping AI that could do my job. (And in fact, did score most of the essays. The 30 humans with the job were a sort of baseline check for the AI.) Eventually they decided they didn't need as many human scorers, and I was out of a job. Right now I'm looking for seasonal work.
I have no interest in this unless it's a video screen with a CGI rendition of Michael Jackson with a Max Headroom background.
