Posted on 08/18/2015 4:44:47 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
If you don't like the idea of robot waiters and robot cooks replacing entry-level workers, you might think twice about the recent $15 minimum-wage craze.
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A hot job would be service industry robot salesperson.
Or installer/tech.
Kind of like the building superintendent / robot repair guy on The Jetsons.
Prefer that line. Not much of a people person.
One of the top ten things that I’ve noticed over the past decade in terms of “change” (actual change and not bogus political change)....was the kiosk operation at airports. There might still be two or three clerks around, but the check-in kiosk has been a brilliant move. With a small bag, I don’t even turn a bag into the baggage crew anymore.
I noticed a couple of international hotel chains now running a check-in kiosk instead you having to deal with the clerk.
I would suspect by 2030....we will travel and find very few people involved in the day-to-day affairs. Maybe TSA folks will still be around but I suspect that most taxi operations by 2030 will all be robotic drivers.
The communists, socialists and democrats are dedicated to:
1. Teaching the proles that there is no such thing as economics 101.
2. Impoverishing the Western World so that the only Good Stuff is at the top of the political hierarchy and the proles get nothing.
3. Dedicating their lives to being at the top of the political hierarchy where all the Good Stuff is.
Yeah, me too.
I was talking to a kid behind the counter at McD’s about this weeks ago.
I told him to tell all his buds that they need to quit listening to the union lackeys because business will only replace him with automation rather than pay him 15 bucks...he said no way.
There are an increasing number of people in America whose working contributions are less than the cost of the minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage is just one more “social justice” idea that makes no sense.
There was a time in America when idea like doubling the minimum wage would have been discussed and dismissed in neighborhood bars and bowling alleys. Now those ideas flourish in a mainstream media that controls the intellectually weak and lazy.
Reminds me of a Harry Harrison sciFi novel where the assassin hides in the Megaburger Automat.
The TSA jobs are union jobs. They are forever.
Traveling just would not be the same without the TSA groping us and stealing from our luggage.
Count me in. I now check in and out of my hotel room with my phone app. Soon I will get a bar code emailed to me that I can use to open the room so I don’t even have to go to clerk to get key card.
I have no problem with using kiosks at airports, restaurants, etc.
Yes, I agree we will soon have self driving taxis. Uber is a major step in that direction and Google and Apple are perfecting the technology, among others.
I’d much prefer a robot in a fast-food joint than some Peruvian with hepatitis making my food.
“The TSA jobs are union jobs. They are forever.”
Not only that, they belong to a federal bureaucracy! Which means when the robots are employed, the idle humans (term/loosely) will still be sitting somewhere, collecting full pay. We will be be taxed to hire both groups!
And yet, GUARANTEED, the kid will protest when his job is eliminated.
And that’s just the bow wave: more and more low-skill jobs will be automated out of existence, and then the skill level will climb.
The question will become: “What do we do with the permanently-unemployed (and unemployable) masses ?
I suspect it will end up going along the lines of Pournelle’s “Welfare Islands” or Brain’s “Terrafoam”. . . .
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