very soon jobless
As fast-food workers across the country vie for $15 per hour wages, many business owners have already begun to take humans out of the picture.
“I was at the National Restaurant Show yesterday and if you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry -- it’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who’s inefficient making $15 an hour bagging French fries -- it’s nonsense and it’s very destructive and it’s inflationary and it’s going to cause a job loss across this country like you’re not going to believe,” said former McDonald’s (MCD) USA CEO Ed Rensi during an interview on the FOX Business Network’s Mornings with Maria.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1.3 million people earned the current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour with about 1.7 million having wages below the federal minimum in 2014. These three million workers combined made up 3.9 percent of all hourly paid workers.
Even the poor today live better than most of the people 100 years ago. I suggest that automation is good for society. Today people don't do many menial jobs like 100 years ago but they can earn money uploading videos to YouTube or playing video games for a living like the guys at Rooster Teeth.
I would rather be jobless today than with a job 100 years ago.
i agree. i only posted this to emphasize that the end of work as we know it is very very near
Good points but nobody goes around comparing their life to how it was 100 years ago which they cant even imagine. People live in current time and they subconsciously keep comparing themselves to others at the moment not 100 years ago. The reason we have time blogging etc. is not completely because of automation but actually some people in some distant lands work harder. On the other hand you are right for saying you would rather be jobless today but that is only valid for the location and economic environment you are in.
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