So there you are, the ink dripping off that advanced degree in Liberal Arts with a major in Pre-Cambrian Sonnets, and out you go looking for work. Start right out with the obvious choices: Order taker for the drive-through line or burger flipper at any fast food outlet within walking distance of your parents basement, and what do you find?
This. In the case of burger flippers, you have been replaced by an automated line that produced (allegedly) perfect custom burgers at a rate of up to 350/hour for less than minimum wage, and of course no health care benefits. We'll talk about the service contract later.
The order taker will be replaced with a touch screen replete with drop-down menus, allowing you to customize your order to the last detail. Ordering from McBurgers has become as efficient as ordering from Amazon. If you have a wireless mouse on your cars center console, you won't even have to reach out the window and actually touch anything until you pull forward to the delivery window to retrieve your order.
The only human behind the counter will be the tech support person, so unless your degree included advanced Windows trouble shooting, you won't find a job there.
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And finally fast food workers will make that 'living wage' the progressives are always harping about. Too bad it will require a non-useless education.
for less than minimum wage, and of course no health care benefits.
So your capitalist utopia can only work if humans are paid less than robots? At least the robots will be provided with some type of maintenance plan.
I miss the good old days when you right-wingers only wanted American workers to compete for lower wages with Chinese factory workers and migrant Mexican labourers, so that executives could get the bigger bonuses and golden parachutes they deserve.
Two years ago:
Foxconn, an electronics manufacturer from Taiwan with huge factories in China, generates about 40 percent of the global consumer electronics revenue by creating things like iPhones and computer components on giant assembly lines staffed by humans.
Yesterday, Foxconn announced (at an employee dance party of all places) that they're planning on buying some robots to replace their human workforce. And by some robots, they mean one million robots over the next three years.
Please explain how this is Obama's fault.
The Economy's Real Problem: That Overpaid Working Class
CBS - Money Watch
July 26, 2011
The real problem facing business today? All those overpaid line workers. That’s the conclusion of a new report from consultants Booz & Co., which will surely be welcome news for the many CEOs now surviving on food stamps.
The study is a masterpiece of rationalization. Using a dizzying pallet of business jargon, the authors have created an argument for non-executive layoffs and wage cuts hermetically sealed from what the rest of us are inclined to call “reality.” It is a wonderful place entirely free of people like former GM CEO Rick Wagoner and Richard Fuld, the last CEO of Lehmann Bros., who respectively got $14 million and $34 million a year to bankrupt their companies. (I don’t remember what Fuld’s golden parachute was, but Wagoner got $20 million for driving the world’s largest corporation into a ditch.)
continued at www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-49641052/the-economys-real-problem-that-overpaid-working-class/
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