Thanks To 'Fight For $15' Minimum Wage, McDonald's Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks

Justin-case

Justin-case

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UncleBuck said:
my racist ass neighbor is a truck driver. probably a trump voter too, if he voted.

i would love to see his family suffer (even moreso than they already are).
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My dad was telling me about this earlier today,lol
whats wrong with this headline?




Uber Self-Driving Truck Packed With Budweiser Makes First Delivery in Colorado - Bloomberg

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Tim Fox

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bict said:
Its very close to happening, only minor issues that will be over come in time. I was talking a good friend of many years about this topic not so long ago. He's a mechanical engineer doing research into similar areas at a university.
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Uber just ran 10 semi trucks down miles of fwy and it worked
 
Tim Fox

Tim Fox

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bict said:
I heard, still a little while off replacing truckers though. Its definitely a topic being discussed in domestically and in the realm of international politics.
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its so close,, where they will replace the fwy truckers,, to where they have humans take them off the fwys,, these are the jobs where working men went when jobs went over seas,, and now??
 
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bict

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Tim Fox said:
its so close,, where they will replace the fwy truckers,, to where they have humans take them off the fwys,, these are the jobs where working men went when jobs went over seas,, and now??
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Do what we always have done, create new industry.
 
Padawanbater2

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londonfog said:
Times are about to get hard for some. I would say I'm going to be happy seeing these stupid broke Trump supporter suffer, but I do realize others are going to get hit as well.
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That's weird, I thought the average Trump voter was making $60K or more per year?
 
Fogdog

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budlover13 said:
If the cost of labor rises, either goods will increase in price or more people will be unemployed.
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automation isn't free. In fact, it's pretty expensive. And complicated to the point where the whole system has to change, not just the customer facing kiosk.

As far as labor costs, the cost of labor is only partly driven by wages. Especially for low wage jobs, finding help, training it putting it in a restaurant and managing it is much a greater cost than the wage. This is why Denmark has a $20 minimum wage but McD burgers cost about 50 cents more. 50 cents isn't a barrier, they McD is profitable in Denmark.

The decision to go automated is more driven by other factors, such as consistent high quality and a process that scales more easily. Conceivably, the stores don't have to be as large or costly which changes the paradigm. McD could consider placing kiosks in locations where they never could have put them before automation. Just saying wages aren't the biggest driver in making the decision to go automated.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Justin-case said:
My dad was telling me about this earlier today,lol
whats wrong with this headline?




Uber Self-Driving Truck Packed With Budweiser Makes First Delivery in Colorado - Bloomberg

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/uber-self-driving-truck-packed-with-budweiser-makes-first-delivery-in-colorado&ved=0ahUKEwj-67Gb2s_QAhUW3mMKHUkwBEgQFggoMAE&usg=AFQjCNH5QKvYbWJdtqBjMPswDfOyRA16qQ&sig2=VdRgG78qflu94DXC994Jxg
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AWWWWW FFS- That damned Bud plant is in MY town!

At least an automated truck can't drive drunk.





....can it?
 
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ThaiBaby1

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Fogdog said:
automation isn't free. In fact, it's pretty expensive. And complicated to the point where the whole system has to change, not just the customer facing kiosk.

As far as labor costs, the cost of labor is only partly driven by wages. Especially for low wage jobs, finding help, training it putting it in a restaurant and managing it is much a greater cost than the wage. This is why Denmark has a $20 minimum wage but McD burgers cost about 50 cents more. 50 cents isn't a barrier, they McD is profitable in Denmark.

The decision to go automated is more driven by other factors, such as consistent high quality and a process that scales more easily. Conceivably, the stores don't have to be as large or costly which changes the paradigm. McD could consider placing kiosks in locations where they never could have put them before automation. Just saying wages aren't the biggest driver in making the decision to go automated.
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Yes the costs are high, but the price is coming down. A lot of the automation isn't new, its just become affordable.Robots can work 24/7 365 minus downtime of course. Don't need health insurance, ss payments, unemployment insurance, maternity leave, don't call in sick, etc.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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Padawanbater2 said:
That's weird, I thought the average Trump voter was making $60K or more per year?
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could be. during the primaries they pegged it around $72k. when i went county by county, the poorest counties had the biggest swings towards trump. but some of the wealthier counties that swung to clinton were still won by trump, just not by as much as romney.
 
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