there are however people on the low end of normal and under who simply will not be able to cope, that is a givenWe knew that minimum wage increases would provoke some changes. The question is still the same on how to handle an increasing lowest income quintile that will also face unemployment pressures from automation, and odds are we will end up talking about education help to get them out of that lowest income quintile.
I think the direction they are moving is the future of the fast food industry so they are on the cutting edge of change. Also the need and desire for such junk food needs to shrink along with massive waist lines.will Wendy's finally remove the fun park gate system and open more than one register now that the system is automated?
I think the direction they are moving is the future of the fast food industry so they are on the cutting edge of change. Also the need and desire for such junk food needs to shrink along with massive waist lines.
If it is not a livable wage then the problem is moot and it is not a livable wage.
Gosh, who could have predicted that? Now more people will be out of work.
Remember: The real minimum wage is always zero.
This is what Robert Heinlein would call "bad luck". We're having more of that sort of bad luck these days.
fast food will eventually be almost completely automated. that is nearly a certainty. other careers will follow, even much more skilled ones. and then, we have to ask ourselves how we will sustain our job>money>access to resources economic model. i'm not arguing that we should keep making buggy whips just to make them. i'm more curious about how we'll address this situation. i'd argue that we should remove any paywall in front of education.
fast food will eventually be almost completely automated. that is nearly a certainty. other careers will follow, even much more skilled ones. and then, we have to ask ourselves how we will sustain our job>money>access to resources economic model. i'm not arguing that we should keep making buggy whips just to make them. i'm more curious about how we'll address this situation. i'd argue that we should remove any paywall in front of education.
Seriously? What will a college degree be worth, if everybody has one?
most of us already do and it's still worth a good living :mrgreen:
No, most of us do not. What do you base this assertion on?
Seriously? What will a college degree be worth, if everybody has one?
I fully agree
I do believe before we reach our solution there will be much resistance and violence...we are on the edge of a strange new world and it will not flow easily, those who fear will fear greatly yet
and some of the fear will be warranted
Gosh, who could have predicted that? Now more people will be out of work.
Remember: The real minimum wage is always zero.
This is what Robert Heinlein would call "bad luck". We're having more of that sort of bad luck these days.
a highly educated population is a great national asset. the paywall that we put in front of higher education is going to contribute to us falling behind the rest of the world eventually.
fast food will eventually be almost completely automated. that is nearly a certainty. other careers will follow, even much more skilled ones. and then, we have to ask ourselves how we will sustain our job>money>access to resources economic model. i'm not arguing that we should keep making buggy whips just to make them. i'm more curious about how we'll address this situation. i'd argue that we should remove any paywall in front of education.
absolutelywe're in the first stages of a post-labor economy. honestly, i don't know what that looks like. at this point, it looks something like a game of musical chairs. when the tractor was invented, displaced agricultural workers were absorbed by factories. now there's really nowhere for former factory workers to go but retail, and those jobs will eventually be absorbed by technology. it's an interesting and somewhat frightening problem.
I believe it already isCapitalism has been instrumental to advances in technology. Ironically it will be that technology that may lead to capitalism being unsustainable in the future. Once AI is perfected it will be a whole new game.
Cuba is currently full of doctors driving cabs but I believe their country is about to explode into the 21st century and will catch up and run economically
absolutely
retail under the old system no longer works and hasn't for almost 2 decades, and actually retail is highly skilled because they are expected to sell, not just stand around dusting
now factories run lines by computer
custodians run schools by computer
everything is changing...and it is just beginning
Gosh, who could have predicted that? Now more people will be out of work.
Remember: The real minimum wage is always zero.
This is what Robert Heinlein would call "bad luck". We're having more of that sort of bad luck these days.
It's another product of liberalism.
:raises eyebrow: My brother has spent his entire adult working life in or around factory production - the whole "oh there are no factory jobs anymore" is bunk. Unions killed off much of the Big Three, but Industrial Production for the US is higher than it ever has been. What we've done is shifted from producing low-value goods to higher-value goods.
College requirements are getting shoved down the work-scale because they are subsidized (and thus more prevalent than we need), and because our High Schools are doing an awful job of giving graduates the basic skill sets.
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