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After Winning a $15 Minimum Wage, Fast Food Workers Now Battle Unfair Firings

Lol America only just embraced “ chip and pin” a decade after the rest of the world. If you think it’s ready for nationwide fully automated restaurants then that’s adorable.

America regulators mandated firms to adopt chip and pin. Firms are always late to the party when it comes to adopting initiatives that cost money; not when it comes to initiatives that makes/saves money. Robo-advisors, self-driving cars, and the like were kick-started by firms in the U.S.

It's already happening in major metropolitan areas, like the one I'm living in. You should drop by and see it for yourself sometime.
 
You need work that is more specialized than just fry-cooking. I'm not in that situation, so I don't expect my job to be automated out of existence. But, anything is possible.

However, I know a few high/mid-level programming languages (Python, R, C++, VBA), structural employment is not really something that I am really concerned with.

There are ways to help people who are left behind without forcing market players to deal with certain inefficiencies.

Can you name a country whose economic policy regarding worker protections and social safety net you admire ?
 
Er mah gerds, people fighting for a better life.

Well if one works in fast food and doesn't intend to become management, why should anyone care?
 
I'm sure fast food workers are deeply concerned about your opinion.

Since most of them can not read they will never know what he wrote...
 
Well if one works in fast food and doesn't intend to become management, why should anyone care?

Well, it seems clear the workers care.
 
Can you name a country whose economic policy regarding worker protections and social safety net you admire ?

Switzerland and Scandinavia, but we will never have those protections because our tax structure is too progressive. Forcing the Bottom 50 percent to start paying taxes is out of the question.
 
Someone has to flip them, someone has to clean floors etc. why should they just accept serfdom ?

they don't have to accept it... they can go back to school... they can get another job... they can move to Mexico...
 
Switzerland and Scandinavia, but we will never have those protections because our tax structure is too progressive. Forcing the Bottom 50 percent to start paying taxes is out of the question.

Scandinavia is not a country...
 
Er mah gerds, people fighting for a better life.
It's not like this wasn't predicted, or followed historical precedence. Generally, when you raise the cost of anything less is sold.
 
they don't have to accept it... they can go back to school... they can get another job... they can move to Mexico...

A post that simply emphasizes why I wrote post 13.
 
America regulators mandated firms to adopt chip and pin. Firms are always late to the party when it comes to adopting initiatives that cost money; not when it comes to initiatives that makes/saves money. Robo-advisors, self-driving cars, and the like was started by firms in the U.S. and no where else.

It's already happening in major metropolitan areas, like the one I'm living in. You should drop by and see it for yourself sometime.


Visit multiple US cities every year and your infrastructure is years behind most of Western Europe and probably at least a decade behind Japan. You have no high speed trains, crumbling roads with cities like Boston struggling to keep up, internet is slow and i mean you still use bills for your single currency. So forgive me if i find it hard to believe that the thousands of fast food chains are going to change over to being fully automated in the next 10 years.
 
A post that simply emphasizes why I wrote post 13.

Starvation is dramatization... nobody is going to starve because they work as a burger flipper...
 
So what...

So what? Well, if you can't even get that right, something that simple, why should we debate anything complicated with you?
 
they don't have to accept it... they can go back to school... they can get another job... they can move to Mexico...

That’s as insane as the other classic line on here “if they don’t like it they should start their own company “
 
Its not that flipping. Burgers is worth $15.

Its that everybody above that should be making more.
Why? On what basis are you claiming “should.?”

The ownership class just decided they needed the money more than we did.
Are you really claiming that wages for a job have no relationship at all to either the supply and demand for labor or fo the cost of labor in relationship to revenue an cost of capital?

Part of me really wants to hear your explanation and part of me is afraid of the pain that will cause.
You would also have to explain why so many non ownership class jobs pay large salaries.
 
Starvation is dramatization... nobody is going to starve because they work as a burger flipper...

Tell them to shut up and accept their wages and the vulnerability to be fired without cause. They'll appreciate it.
 
So what? Well, if you can't even get that right, something that simple, why should we debate anything complicated with you?

It's really not my fault that you're such a superficial nitwit that large ideas easily fly over your head...
 
Cook won't be automated anytime soon. Ordering Kiosks could become more numerous. But, a lot of McD's are franchises anyway aren't they? It will likely vary place to place.

But yeah line cook is a safe job imo. There are a lot of jobs that will be killed off by automation, I don't think line cook is one.


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Visit multiple US cities every year and your infrastructure is years behind most of Western Europe and probably at least a decade behind Japan. You have no high speed trains, crumbling roads with cities like Boston struggling to keep up, internet is slow and i mean you still use bills for your single currency. So forgive me if i find it hard to believe that the thousands of fast food chains are going to change over to being fully automated in the next 10 years.

That's true, but I'm talking about private firms technology infrastructure, not public infrastructure. These are two separate things...
 
That’s as insane as the other classic line on here “if they don’t like it they should start their own company “

Not at all... starting a company is difficult. It takes capital and resources, etc. Going to school is easy... and often free at community colleges... and moving to Mexico is easy... and free...
 
Someone has to flip them, someone has to clean floors etc. why should they just accept serfdom ?

Demanding all these government protections is accepting serfdom. They literally selling themselves into slavery.
 
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