re: Wendy's plans self-ordering kiosks at 1,000 locations

It goes back to the outsourcing and globalism argument that technological change and the development of entire new industries will replace the low-skilled jobs in developed countries.

Statistics and population theory say you are going to have a stratified labor force in terms of skill and ability. So if you've got a country of 300 million and we know 20 million or so are always going to be at the bottom of the labor market ladder in terms of skills and education, we've got to find a job for them to do. Not to channel my inner Barack Obama, but folks without jobs and without some sort of pacification through assimilating into the broader economy as a whole get mighty restless.

So we either have to develop new industries to put these folks to work or we'll have to pacify them by placing them on the government tit.

The failure of technological change to bring about low-skilled jobs in developing countries is one of the main drivers of the Trump nationalism economic revolution.

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Chick-Fil-A, Whataburger, In-n-out are all MILES above Wendy's.

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Two out of three isn't bad. But In-N-Out is the worst I've ever tasted (then again, they are from California, what do you expect from a state overrun by vegans?)

Oh I put In-N-Out third in that list for a reason. It's still worlds better than Wendy's though.

My first green chile double at whataburger was a life-changing experience.

...and Chick-Fil-A is Chick-Fil-A. There's a reason why they're the number one fast food restaurant in the country...by quite a large margin.