Minimum wage leading to touchscreens replacing cashiers?

TBoneJack

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Although I hate McDonald's, they are responding reasonably to the growing costs of doing business. Especially in light of increasing sentiments toward higher minimum wages and the pipe-dream of "living wages" for burger-flipping and cashier "professionals".

McDonald's gets a bonus when they develop machines to replace workers: the workers they're eliminating are typically dumb, inefficient teenagers working their first job. And the increase in efficiency of machines over teenagers must be huge.
 
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NLXSK1

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Arguments will probably come down along the lines that the community provides commerce for the business so for every x number of seats in an establishment they must have y number of employees working z number of hours to be allowed a business license... Amerika!!
 

hellmutt bones

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Yes i went to the bank yesterday and all but two of the tellers are gone! I was like tha fuq? Now they did teach me how to use the machine but seriously? Now i have a machine taking my cash! I wish John Connor or Sarha where here to put an end to this shit!
 

MuyLocoNC

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It's brilliant. Now they just need voice recognition at the drive-through and all will be right in the world. It's awesome when completely replaceable self-entitled douchebags facilitate the conditions that lead to their replacement. Talk to the Hostess workers.

You work there solely at the discretion of the owner.

"Give us double our pay, cause we say so"

How about a consolation prize? A pink slip and a swift kick in the ass on your way out the door.

Priceless.
 

Rrog

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Auto workers? Assembly lines? All on future chopping blocks. Technology and corporate greed saw to that, not a simple request for a living wage.
 

Mr.Head

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Only in America would you see people defending massive corporations protecting their massive profit margins. Then they will complain that these massive corporations control their government and are buying their politicians to create laws that absolve these companies of any sort of liability for wrong doing.

Hey America maybe if Walmart and other companies were forced to pay employees a fair wage they couldn't afford to buy the politicians that have deemed corporations people all the while also ensuring that no one can go to jail when they kill someone.
 

texasjack

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Only in America would you see people defending massive corporations protecting their massive profit margins. Then they will complain that these massive corporations control their government and are buying their politicians to create laws that absolve these companies of any sort of liability for wrong doing.

Hey America maybe if Walmart and other companies were forced to pay employees a fair wage they couldn't afford to buy the politicians that have deemed corporations people all the while also ensuring that no one can go to jail when they kill someone.
the US must be the only place where working people side with corps against other working people. Makes no sense at all.
 
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