Quote:Yes the technology was being tested, heck it was in the early 2000's you had the first fully automated McDonald's I think in Japan or China? Anyways, the replacement of remedial labor by machines has been happening since the days of cotton. It's natural, but when you start adding in the demand of high wages for low skill jobs it's going to accelerate the process. Crying about the low skill not making enough is like screaming at farmers for using tractors instead of hiring workers to pick the fields.

 

The problem is you have a sector that can only perform low skill to no skill labor as a means of income, not that they make so little. Of course those jobs are low paying, of course you can't provide for a family, of course they're replace by technology!

 

The solution is taking low skilled workers and teaching them a skill or craft, not bellyaching they don't make enough flipping burgers, or demonizing the restaurant owner that replaced them with a machine programed to ask "would you like fries with that?".

 

They were accelerating the use of them in I believe in either 2007 or 2009.  

 

Whether raising wages accelerates it or not is up for debate.  It is inevitable though and maybe accelerating it is a good thing.  The quicker you can pull off the band-aid the better.  Technology is a coming and every year it is coming fast and faster and faster.  We humans are going to have to learn to adapt quicker and quicker or be left behind.  I agree with the bellyaching as I think complaining does not solve the problem.  We know people will be replaced by machines.  Do we whine about it or do we adapt?  I'll adapt.

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