Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Starving workers demand living wage, but only from national chain restaurants and only in the New York City limits.
That’s okay, I already bag my own groceries and pump my own gas. I’m ready for the fast-food touch-screen order menu. I can enter “No. 5 Extra Value Meal, Small Coffee, 2 Splenda, 2 Cream, To Go” as well as that minimum wage worker can, so go ahead and lay her off.
Joe Doakes
And it’ll be boom-time for UX designers in the kiosk business.
“When New York acts, the rest of the states follow. That is the New York way,” he said.
See gun control for an example.
The automation can be monitored cheaper if we allow the trouble-shooting to be done in a remote location – like the Punjab.
Service kiosks are ubiquitous in airports. Almost all grocery stores have “do it yourself” checkouts, which by the way, even the 250 lb welfare queen wearing the “juicy” sweatpants somehow manages to successfully navigate in WalMart.
How can these people not see the obvious end game? And more importantly, why do leftists hate unskilled, low wage workers?
Here is the obvious question: Why can liberals NOT see what is so glaringly obvious?
One possible answer: They believe that any law they pass supersedes the laws of chemistry, physics, economics and human nature.
I’d argue that I can enter “No. 5 Extra Value Meal, Small Coffee, 2 Splenda, 2 Cream, To Go” better than half the minimum wage idiots at my local McDonald’s. At the least, I wouldn’t have to repeat my order 3 times or more.
I was at a McDonalds this weekend. The cashier was incredibly slow. I read most of the front page of my newspaper while waiting in line (and there was only one family ahead of me) I wish I could have gone to a self-serve kiosk and put in the #10 Chicken McNugget Meal, for here, no sauce.
But you what? She wasn’t worth $15 a hour, but the youngster is getting skills at what probably is her first job. If Minnesota had a $15 an hour minimum wage, this kid probably would not be working this past weekend. Heck, I’d work weekends at McDonalds for $15 an hour.
To take it even father along the “conspiracy theory turns out to not be a conspiracy after all, but the end goal” plane:
Here is the obvious question: Why can liberals NOT see what is so glaringly obvious?
It’s not that they can’t. They know what is glaringly obvious. The party that consistently votes to give out free government cheese, wants more and more people who need that free government cheese to survive. It increases their vote counts. They don’t have to rely so much on voter fraud, although they’re still plenty willing to use that method as well.