Meet Flippi, you new burger flipper and response to high min wage

It's OK, they're hoping for a taxpayer-funded universal basic income that requires no work at all.
 
StoneByStone said:
TBH, I don't think there should be a minimum wage. But this has nothing to do with the minimum wage. Automation is going to replace millions of people regardless because it's virtually always going to be cheaper.
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It will always be more reliable than someone that doesn't want to work and/or has a skill set where the only job they can get is minimum wage.
 
CFM said:
It will always be more reliable than someone that doesn't want to work and/or has a skill set where the only job they can get is minimum wage.
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Sure, but it will also be more reliable and cheaper than people who do want to work and have valuable skills. At some point we're going to have no choice but to have UBI.
 
Celticguy said:
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-27/flippy-fast-food-restaurant-robot-arm

$3.00 an hour, never calls in sick and is the definition of consistant.

You living wage folks are legislating yourselves into obsolescence.
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Old news.

They've been working on automated burger making robots for a decade.

I was posting articles about them prior to the last election back when the $15 minimum wage proposals first started.

If it happens, it happens.

For the most part it will mainly affect teenagers and a very few retirees.
 
CFM said:
It's a burger flipper. By the very job, they have no skills.
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Kinda like your toilet scrubbing janitor job, eh Cletus?

You'd better be worried about these things....

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For most of the time robots have been around, the notion of building them to operate in human workplaces was a far-off fantasy. Until recently, most required fully robot-centric environments. Similar to early computer mainframes, which were scheduled for computational activity around the clock, industrial robots have been too expensive to run at anything below maximum capacity for most of their history. Unlike early computers, high-output robots are also too strong and dumb to safely work alongside humans.

But now that costs have come down and both motor and sensor technology has improved, robots are safe and cheap enough to use in occasional spurts in a normal work environment
 
anatta said:
For most of the time robots have been around, the notion of building them to operate in human workplaces was a far-off fantasy. Until recently, most required fully robot-centric environments. Similar to early computer mainframes, which were scheduled for computational activity around the clock, industrial robots have been too expensive to run at anything below maximum capacity for most of their history. Unlike early computers, high-output robots are also too strong and dumb to safely work alongside humans.

But now that costs have come down and both motor and sensor technology has improved, robots are safe and cheap enough to use in occasional spurts in a normal work environment
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The automobile manufacturing industry has been using fully automated robots for decades.

 
Nomad said:
Old news.

They've been working on automated burger making robots for a decade.

I was posting articles about them prior to the last election back when the $15 minimum wage proposals first started.

If it happens, it happens.

For the most part it will mainly affect teenagers and a very few retirees.
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Not that cheap. Costs have dropped from 35k to 2k. Thats significant.
 
Celticguy said:
Not that cheap. Costs have dropped from 35k to 2k. Thats significant.
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Doesn't bother me one bit.

If replacing some pimply-faced teenagers with robots who can cook and put together a hot, juicy, made to order cheeseburger and an order of hot, crispy fries for less money and then pass the savings on to me, then I'm all for it.

I've never been a supporter of paying teenagers $15 an hour to work part time in fast food joints.

They don't need that kind of money and their skills don't warrant it.
 
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