Ken Jacobs, chairman of the UC Berkeley center, told the Los Angeles Times, “This is a very big deal for low-wage workers in California, for their families and for their children.”
It is a big deal, as well, to those soon to be out of work UC Berkeley workers.
But why is anyone surprised about jobs cuts following a wage hike? It’s one of the most basic laws of economics. Any high school kid taking Econ 101 can explain it: If you raise the price of something, demand goes down.
So, they either have less work to be done, or, magically, the workers who are left, are suddenly capable of doing more work.
So, they either have less work to be done, or, magically, the workers who are left, are suddenly capable of doing more work.
So, they either have less work to be done, or, magically, the workers who are left, are suddenly capable of doing more work.
So, they either have less work to be done, or, magically, the workers who are left, are suddenly capable of doing more work.
Or, there are just better ways to do things that have nothing to do with hiring more people.
The problem for the pencil necks in government is that they are always assuming static conditions. The folks in the Make-a-Profit end of the world always look for ways to shake things up and improve the outcome.
In any business performing any function for profit, the outcome most examined is the profitability.
Our government is a wonderful construct. Put in place by themselves, it grinds on doing nothing but aggrandizing those that yearn for power and have no experience. They are overpaid, underperforming, know very little demigods who love to demonstrate that they are superior. In the meantime, those they like to control are so far ahead of them in experience and knowledge that the rules they enact are obsoleted in moments after they are enacted.
Can't make desirable foods using automated methods? Ever had a Snickers?
Dear Striking Fast-Food Workers: Meet The Machine That Just Put You Out Of A Job | Zero Hedge
Finally, for those complaining that there will be no "human touch" left to take the orders, robots have that covered too:
The robot is shown below. It occupies 24 square feet, and is much smaller and efficient than most assembly-line fast-food operations. It provides "gourmet cooking methods never before used in a fast food restaurant" and will deposit the completed burger into a bag. It does all of this without a trace of attitude.
A week after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state’s $15 minimum wage boost into law, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent a memo to employees announcing that 500 jobs were getting cut.
Coincidence? Not really.
Last year, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced plans to boost its minimum wage to $15 at the start of next school year, independent of the state law.
From the annals of instant karma, because you know all those minimum wage workers were supporting the increase. Five hundred of them lost their jobs.
UC Berkeley Touts $15 Wage Law, Then Fires Hundreds After It Passe | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
Except, of course, in liberalandia, where good intentions are all anyone needs. Berkeley was already in financial trouble. It simply could not go further into debt to keep those people employed. Eventually you run out of other people's money.
From the annals of instant karma, because you know all those minimum wage workers were supporting the increase. Five hundred of them lost their jobs.
UC Berkeley Touts $15 Wage Law, Then Fires Hundreds After It Passe | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
Except, of course, in liberalandia, where good intentions are all anyone needs. Berkeley was already in financial trouble. It simply could not go further into debt to keep those people employed. Eventually you run out of other people's money.
Or, there are just better ways to do things that have nothing to do with hiring more people.
The problem for the pencil necks in government is that they are always assuming static conditions. The folks in the Make-a-Profit end of the world always look for ways to shake things up and improve the outcome.
In any business performing any function for profit, the outcome most examined is the profitability.
Our government is a wonderful construct. Put in place by themselves, it grinds on doing nothing but aggrandizing those that yearn for power and have no experience. They are overpaid, underperforming, know very little demigods who love to demonstrate that they are superior. In the meantime, those they like to control are so far ahead of them in experience and knowledge that the rules they enact are obsoleted in moments after they are enacted.
Can't make desirable foods using automated methods? Ever had a Snickers?
Dear Striking Fast-Food Workers: Meet The Machine That Just Put You Out Of A Job | Zero Hedge
Finally, for those complaining that there will be no "human touch" left to take the orders, robots have that covered too:
The robot is shown below. It occupies 24 square feet, and is much smaller and efficient than most assembly-line fast-food operations. It provides "gourmet cooking methods never before used in a fast food restaurant" and will deposit the completed burger into a bag. It does all of this without a trace of attitude.
Are you suggesting that such automation would not come to pass sans minimum wage?
Not in the slightest. However, if the minimum wage is higher, then the number of labor hours reduced to pay for the one time outlay is easier to justify.
If the touch screen kiosk costs $5000 and the hourly wage is $1.00, then that's a whole lot of hours to save to pay for the kiosk.
If the hourly wage is $5000 and the kiosk price is $5000 then the choice is a no-brainer.
I think it will happen in all applications very soon. At the Olive Garden, the last time I was there, there was a tablet on a little stand on the table that I could use to order if I wanted to. Being a dinosaur who like to talk to the pretty young ladies in the wait staff, I waited for the human being to show up. Also left her a tip.
I like human beings. In the near future, ordering using a human transcriber will be viewed as a marker of a higher class place. I imagine that any place where you have to stand up when you order will not have human beings working at the counter.
I remember when a guy never got out of his car to gas up. At that time, with a fill up, you got a free glass the you could eventually make a set of. I haven't had an attendant pump gas for me in at least 30 years. Free glass? Right...
The world changes.
Not in the slightest. However, if the minimum wage is higher, then the number of labor hours reduced to pay for the one time outlay is easier to justify.
If the touch screen kiosk costs $5000 and the hourly wage is $1.00, then that's a whole lot of hours to save to pay for the kiosk.
If the hourly wage is $5000 and the kiosk price is $5000 then the choice is a no-brainer.
I think it will happen in all applications very soon. At the Olive Garden, the last time I was there, there was a tablet on a little stand on the table that I could use to order if I wanted to. Being a dinosaur who like to talk to the pretty young ladies in the wait staff, I waited for the human being to show up. Also left her a tip.
I like human beings. In the near future, ordering using a human transcriber will be viewed as a marker of a higher class place. I imagine that any place where you have to stand up when you order will not have human beings working at the counter.
I remember when a guy never got out of his car to gas up. At that time, with a fill up, you got a free glass the you could eventually make a set of. I haven't had an attendant pump gas for me in at least 30 years. Free glass? Right...
The world changes.
In what universe are those kiosks going to cost $5000?
In what universe are those kiosks going to cost $5000?
Servers make LESS than minimum wage, and are being replaced with robots.
So....the argument that increasing minimum wage will increase the adaptation of automation is kinda busted, IMO.
We are using something like these where I work and the whole installation costs about $5000 and there is a monthly charge to connect to the internet. Nation wide, we are operating about 1700 to date.
The pricing has stayed pretty flat, but the capabilities keep expanding.
So, I suppose, this Universe.
Did you think this price was high or low?
Well, logically, it's never the case that there is less work to be done. The decision has more to do with the recognition that less will get done in order to deal with the economic reality they have been forced to deal with.
So they fight for $15 an hour then , realize they can't afford it , so they FIRE 500 , this is today's higher level thinking ! :lamo
" Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago." — Ann Coulter
Servers make LESS than minimum wage, and are being replaced with robots.
So....the argument that increasing minimum wage will increase the adaptation of automation is kinda busted, IMO.
but it feels good to pay those that weren't fired 15 an hour.
we dont' care about logic or anything just feelings and how people feel
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