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RE: Wendy’s Automates To Overcome The Minimum Wage
The ancient greeks have been dreaming of machines that weave the cloth, to free mankind from the necessity of stupid work.
A couple of thousand years later, people are afraid of the same thing. The great evangelical motto "who does not work should not eat" poisoned our minds, and makes us define ourselves by how we get our money instead of who we really are.
I welcome every step towards a society free of forced repetitive and boring tasks. And I dream of a society that is able to share the value automation brings for all of us, instead of funnelling it into the hands of a few while fighting to the blood for the breadcrumbs they leave us.
I am all for automation, just economically justified automation. In this case the automation makes everyone less well off.
It can be a good deal for Wendy, assumed people still buy there. Depends on how good the service can be replaced. If it turns out to be good for Wendy, it can be said that the customers did not suffer either.
In my world, a job at a burger station is nothing anyone could want, so I do not see the workers as losers. I can understand that it feels like that for them though, because of the mindset issue I mentioned before. Their real issues are only monetary, and come from a system that requires us to uphold to manual work for the workers sake only. Progress could be so much further when people would not (have to) be afraid of being freed by machines...
agree that make work is pointless. I disagree that automation at gun point is beneficial. No involuntary trade can be said to benefit the parties.