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re: "Fast Food Workers: You Don’t Deserve $15 an Hour to Flip Burgers and That’s OK"
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:02 pm to HailToTheChiz
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:02 pm to HailToTheChiz
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They will find a way to automate the whole place with only needing one or two employees
Trust me, this is already in development. I'm sure every time one of these dumbass strikes happens McDonald's throws another couple hundred thousand into the McNugget Maker 3000 project
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Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:21 pm to Grim
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Trust me, this is already in development. I'm sure every time one of these dumbass strikes happens McDonald's throws another couple hundred thousand into the McNugget Maker 3000 project
We already have robots that can build complex machinery. I guarantee the technology is there to allow the process of flipping burgers and dunking french fries to be completely automated. Hell, Pee Wee Herman built an automated breakfast machine in the '80's!!
To this point it probably hasn't been cost effective to retro fit all the restaurants with that equipment vs paying low skilled workers min wage to do the job. But raise the operating cost by artificially increasing wages and you'll see fast food companies react accordingly
I say what are they waiting for? Going nearly fully automated would almost immediately increase productivity, efficiency, and food quality while likely allowing prices to remain low. It's a win for everyone but the idiots who would have "bargained" themselves out of a job
Posted on 4/16/15 at 11:53 pm to Grim
This has to be a several part project.
1. Raise the wage to 15 dollars.
2. Legislation to outlaw factory like production of food. Say that each meal that is made has to be produced by at least four people (to prevent job losses).
3. Governmental subsidies for franchises in the interim transition period, three years.
4. Introduce an "income cap" for franchises, that no franchisee can make more than 20 times what the lowest paid full time employee makes.
5. Mandatory health care coverage.
Then this can go through.
Just raising a salary to 15 is a shallow attempt to create a just result.
1. Raise the wage to 15 dollars.
2. Legislation to outlaw factory like production of food. Say that each meal that is made has to be produced by at least four people (to prevent job losses).
3. Governmental subsidies for franchises in the interim transition period, three years.
4. Introduce an "income cap" for franchises, that no franchisee can make more than 20 times what the lowest paid full time employee makes.
5. Mandatory health care coverage.
Then this can go through.
Just raising a salary to 15 is a shallow attempt to create a just result.
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