It was bound to happen and I can’t think of an argument against automating the Fast food workers if the company feels that the are to much of an expense vs. the labor received.
But on the other hand what happens when there aren’t the people available to buy your products because they don’t have jobs, because they were all automated out of existence and there aren’t the jobs left to earn the money to do so? EBT cards? Fine let’s say that’s the official answer. where’s the Government going to get the money to keep loading them every month? Taxes? You got to earn money to be able to pay income taxes. Property taxes? Well people, there is a HUGE revolt building up there too.
Continue to ‘borrow’ money? Not to much of that left either, unless you want hyper-inflation. Even then there is the feeling of being on a piece of s... going down the toilet bowl.
Reduce the population so that ‘everything’ balances out again? I wouldn’t bet the farm on that one. Way to many ‘known unknowns’ and ‘unknown unknowns’ there.
The answer is we need to stop de-educating half the people in the country so they can do better jobs than flip a burger.