Posted on 08/14/2014 7:32:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hotel rooms for the introverts among us are an anti-social haven. Nothing beats a hot shower, followed by settling into a freshly made bed in a terrycloth robe to watch mediocre television with a glass of wine. No one bothers you and for an exquisite moment in time, you have nary a care in the world.
Then the realization hits. You’ve forgotten your toothbrush at home! You’re going to have to call the snooty concierge. You’re going to have to smile and tip and say thank you. You’ll have to deal with people.
The chain of hotels has introduced the Botlr (the name is a cringe-worthy hybrid of ‘robot’ and ‘butler’), a three-foot tall service robot designed by California startup Savioke. Designed to evoke the tux-wearing butlers of old, this high-tech helper is dispatched by a human bellman after a customer calls the front desk. It then navigates its way through the hotels’ maze of corridors and elevators to bring critical sundries to your door. Crisis averted.
Like the pizza drone and the Dutch gas pump jockey before it, this newest tech wonder looks to be another item in a long list of robots that threatens to crush jobs and wreak poverty among workers, only to become a minor marketing gimmick.
Even Starwood execs are remaining somewhat reserved on the matter: “It is certainly not replacing our staff, but it is augmenting our ability to service our customers,” Brian McGuinness, senior vice president for Starwood’s Aloft line of hotels, told CNBC, adding that he only foresees one or two Botlrs at most per hotel.
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Get dressed, grab your wallet and your card key, take a walk and work off that glass of wine, find a convenience store or a pharmacy and buy a toothbrush.
Walk back to hotel, doff the clothes and get back to drinking. Total loss of time? 30 minutes? Minimum human interaction. Easy peasy.
McWorkers strike nationwide and demand higher wages, then act surprised and offended that companies are looking to replace them with robots? Must have slept through “Logical Consequences” class.
“It’s more consistent, more sanitary, and “
...won’t spit or spray oven cleaner in your burger.
No wages or benefits to pay. I’d use robots too, especially if I could take maintenance fees as a business expense on my taxes.
More robots- taking grunt jobs-
Exactly why the last thing we need are hordes of illegal aliens with a second grade education. They don’t even speak Spanish. Many/most speak Indian languages like Mam.
America is going to look like a cross between Blade Runner and the favelas (slums) of Rio De Janeiro.
Favelas are where the drugs are and drug deals are done-—
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Twitter has 23 million users who are “bots”
They do the posting and Twitter and Facebook etc get the money from higher stock prices due to being popular - stock fraud.
Wall Street does the same with automatic trading back and forth with the only human taking in the profits from the pump n dump.
“A robot bellhop can’t tell you where to get a hooker.”
Haven’t you heard about the recent innovations in Japanese love-dolls? The robotic bellhop’s little sister is a hooker!
“Sorry, Bender, our hotel doesn’t get much call for bending services.”
While waiting for the traffic light to change, I felt a firm grip on my shoulder and turned around to see a 'lady of the evening.'
"Wanna have some fun?" she asked. First words out of my mouth were "Sorry, honey, you'd have to pay me more than you could possibly afford." Her grip on my arm went limp immediately and the look on her face was priceless. Just then, the light turned green.
If one begins with the assumption that the buyers will buy just so much, then it follows that if now that given quantity of goods can be produced with less labor, because of the adoption of labor-saving machinery, then there will be correspondingly less work available for people to do, and thus that improvements in machinery cause unemployment.
But in a free capitalistic division of labor society characterized by economic progress,
(1)the aggregate demand curve shows that even any given quantity of money and volume of spending is potentially capable of buying an unlimited quantity of goods at lower prices, and no matter how great the output becomes at the point of full employment, it will be demanded.
(2)newer and better machinery leads to increased productivity of labor and changes in pattern or employment, not unemployment as a whole.And increased productivity of labor leads to increased total productive ability, which leads to economic progress, which leads to increased prosperity and higher standard of living for the average worker.
But I would never travel or stay in NYC. My business travels are in SoCal, Canada, Utah or NC. Haven't seen a hooker yet. But then, I don't really look.
When you are young, you don't always have the choice of the places you go for business.
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