Quote:I think if you raise minimum wage up to where I've been hearing, you will find pretty much every ones prices going up to adjust for it. Leaving it to be how things are now just with higher prices, those minimum wage workers will still be in trouble trying to afford a place to live and what not. May even send more small businesses closing their doors.
Minimum wage increase will definitely benefit large corporations as small businesses will be forced to cut employees and raise prices, forcing consumers towards the larger corporations capable of handling this change. It is definitely a corporate power-play. However, I think that even for large corporations, a minimum wage increase will force them to seek cheaper alternatives to personnel labor. This is going to create a technological boom in which corporations will compete to find new ways to replace workers. Like I said, this is good for engineers and developers, but bad for lower-end worker. I only wonder what they will do with this new unemployed work force that will be created? I mean, if the jobs are getting done and profit and production remains the same, but unemployment continues to rise, do we start to look towards a living wage for people that are basically incapable of performing higher-tier work?
I mean, it is not like you can ask Jamal the career burger flipper of Jenny the paper-pusher to start writing professional development code, architect intricate technological designwork, or maintain complex mechanical structures like drones or robotics. Some people can do it, most cannot. What do you do with them?
Quote:Yeah, but those jobs in those fulfillment centers are likely to be significantly less salary than the drivers.
Overall, a loss for the worker.
I would imagine them needing to hire multiple drone operators and maintenance guys per distro center. In addition, I might be wrong but I don't think Amazon has their own drivers. UPS, FEDEX, and USPS handle their pickups and delivers I thought.
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I see in your following post you were referring to the drivers of the delivery companies. I cant imagine all that many of those drivers would need to be let go, if at all.
Quote:I would imagine them needing to higher multiple drone operators and maintenance guys per distro center. In addition, I might be wrong but I don't think Amazon has their own drivers. UPS, FEDEX, and USPS handle their pickups and delivers I thought.
I would think operating and/or maintaining a drone is a lot more difficult than driving a delivery truck and dropping off a package. You probably can't just take a truck driver or maintainer and tell them to operate or maintain a drone. Drone operation will probably be automated though, so that won't even be an available job. However, I suppose that as costs decrease in the production of these drones, the standards for operating and maintaining them will decrease so they can open the position to less qualified individuals.
Quote:I would think operating and/or maintaining a drone is a lot more difficult than driving a delivery truck and dropping off a package. However, I suppose that as costs decrease in the production of these drones, the standards for operating and maintaining them will decrease.
Creation of skilled jobs is a bad thing?
Quote:Creation of skilled jobs is a bad thing?
No its a great thing, but not everyone is skilled or has a desire to be skilled. This ties back into my original question, what do you do with these people?