Google road-tested a self-driving car in March 2012. Is there anybody here who thinks that it’s harder to build a set of machines that takes orders, collects money, cooks burgers and delivers them to the customer than it is to build a self-driving car?
As for the economics, my guess is that there are a whole lot of things that make economic sense to automate if the alternative is paying somebody $15 per hour that don’t make sense if the alternative is paying somebody about half that.
Sadly, the Egg McMoveOn didn’t turn out to be as popular as they thought it would be.
They’ll just have to pay more taxes if they earn more per hour.
In the words of the philosopher Leo Getz: “You get FICA’d at the drive-through!”
Google road-tested a self-driving car in March 2012. Is there anybody here who thinks that it’s harder to build a set of machines that takes orders, collects money, cooks burgers and delivers them to the customer than it is to build a self-driving car?
As for the economics, my guess is that there are a whole lot of things that make economic sense to automate if the alternative is paying somebody $15 per hour that don’t make sense if the alternative is paying somebody about half that.
They better be careful what they wish for, if they get paid more, they might actually have to ….pay taxes!!! O_O
@Iowa Jim – now add the cost of ObamaCare for some employers to that $15/hr and the economics of automation gets another boost.