It will probably be more like IT support in a small office -- just have an independent contractor to call when something goes wrong.
"Flippy" will be making your burgers soon
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It will probably be more like IT support in a small office -- just have an independent contractor to call when something goes wrong.
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So when something goes wrong, do they stop selling burgers until the independent contractor arrives and fixes it? What if it can't be fixed right then? What do you tell Wimpy who wants a hamburger today and owes some dude money for it on Tuesday?
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Once again, that's not how it works. You make the assertion, it's all on you to back it up. And "common economic knowledge" is irrelevant to the truth or falsity of your very specific assertion.
What that higher costs of production invite innovation? Give me a break. Get an education in economics and business for Christ's sake. I'm not going to spend my day educating you in elementary facts of business life. Take a lookk at this picture and tell me what you don't see:
It talks about the elimination of manual labor as the aim of the technology. The article says:
"According to a recent BofA reported on how robotics will reshape the world, San Francisco start up Momentum Machines are out to fully automate the production of burgers with the aim of replacing a human fast food worker. The machine can shape burgers from ground meat, grill them to order with the specified amount of char, toast buns, add tomatoes, onions, pickles, and finally place it on a conveyor belt."
"As the company's co-founder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his "device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them."
What do you think motivates the invention of this technology?
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What that higher costs of production invite innovation? Give me a break. Get an education in economics and business for Christ's sake. I'm not going to spend my day educating you in elementary facts of business life. Take a lookk at this picture and tell me what you don't see:
A store full of customers.
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Take a lookk at this picture and tell me what you don't see:
- Any food with nutritional value
- A place I would eat
- Friendly customer service
- A locally owned and operated establishment
- People making a living
This is fun - do another one!
Of course they do, but so do many other factors, and innovation is always happening anyway. There is no obvious causal relationship between the living-wage movement and any particular advance in automation.
Take a lookk at this picture and tell me what you don't see:
I don't see any way for you to get your burger. You can order it, but then what? Those terminals obviously don't dispense food.
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Drone.
Well, they don't call the thing Sous Chef Flippy du le Maison Beouf.
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I hate the self check out because it seems like something always messes up and the person gets called over.
I think your last line there is an interesting clue?????
*chuckle*
I went to buy some booze today at one of those places that sell booze/cigs/lotto tickets and it's usually in-and-out but I got behind a gut who had a gazillion lotto tickets and all day to tall about how none of them, as was he, winners...
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It talks about living-wage demands and it talks about a burger machine (and a much more versatile one than "flippy"), but it does not say the implementation of the latter was or would be accelerated by the former.
It was always going to happen, but the fervent drive for an artificial minimum wage has really accelerated the pace...
Of course, some of us stated that this is exactly what would happen, but you know, we're students of the Austrian School and that makes us outdated economic illiterates because every one in the real SCIENCE of Economics knows that higher wages at the low end translates into more sales, DUH!!!, you Austrian dummies, it has, you know...
MULTIPLIERS!
KO has a laser-like focus on his objective that includes blinders...
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I've noticed an upswing in "but....but... EVERYBODY KNOWS!" logical fallacies of late, and not just the Usual Suspects (Ishmael, and Conager's latest alt-du-jour)
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The spaces between terminals. Someone brings it to you. Usually have to put in a name when you order.
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I'd agree with most of those except the locally owned thing. Most are franchises so are usually locally owned and operated. People often look down at stores with corporate logos but too often forget they are owned by the guy next door.
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Tell that to the coal industry, because that is exactly what happened there. More coal comes out of the ground than ever it just takes less people.
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Franchising has much different economics than a locally owned and operated small business.
How? A franchise operates in the same market. It is distinguished from a non-franchised business only by brand-name advantage and a standardized operations manual.
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Don't forget the ASL, Approved Supplier's List. And often, there's only one place on that list.
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In many, many ways. Franchise fees and product sourcing requirements funnel money out of the community and prevent utilizing local small business - just to scratch the surface.
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Only if you're pushing for that "living wage" .
Everyone who owns or runs a business out there who's watching the living wage movement happen is looking for ways to escape the absurd government imposed taxes that the 'living wage' movement seeks to impose upon them.
Socialist oppression is the mother of invention.
Socialist want 50/hr for a job only worth 3/hr?
Build a robot.
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This evening I came across an article that spoke of a robot arm that could sew together a grape and would eventually but surgeons out of a job, but it's all about the minimum wage......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-practices-surgery-stitching-GRAPE-SKIN.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-practices-surgery-stitching-GRAPE-SKIN.html
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