re: Nearly 25,000 fast food workers in California have lost their jobs past year.

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The Taco Bell on Siegen Lane takes your order via AI. It was perfect and even got my specialty requests correct. It was only a matter of time before some of these front line jobs disappear no matter what the weight scale was.

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The Taco Bell on Siegen Lane takes your order via AI. It was perfect and even got my specialty requests correct. It was only a matter of time before some of these front line jobs disappear no matter what the weight scale was

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Could have been replaced years ago, now they think it's cost effective. I think we will see in a few years once they go through a few repair cycles.

Guessing they outsourced IT, that is on call

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I would love to see a survey of the "technology" implemented to see if there is a corresponding rise. It would make sense but haven't seen any data.

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You may not have seen a study on it, but there is data on it as you are seeing it happen in real time.

Once the cost of labor exceeds that of automation, businesses in that field will move those jobs to automation. This was a stance many of us took years ago when just the $15/hour minimum wage hike was being pushed.

The problem comes from people who can't reconcile that the economy has changed from their romanticized views of it from the 1950s and 1960s (which has been passed down to following generations). It used to be that a majority of jobs were low-to-no-skill jobs and those jobs provided experience which workers could use to eventually parlay into higher pay (going to other employers, getting raises, promotions, etc).

Low-paying jobs are low-to-no-skill jobs. As such, there takes little-to-no-valued specialization to do them, so employers aren't having to pay a premium for specialized labor as technology decreases the amount of such labor needed (even though the supply of that level of labor remains high). Labor is also the single largest expense of any business (averages around 25% of profits) so when it comes to cutting costs because the cost of inputs is rising, labor is often a big target.

Those jobs are also often more easily automated, meaning as time goes on and we become more and more technology-based, entry-level workers will need some level of skills' training in order to compete with automation as well as other low-end workers. This has slowly been the case for decades, but until recently those low-end workers could always move from one field (assembly lines, for example) to another (like fast food). We're quickly coming to a point where the push for higher wages is moving more and more of those jobs into the range where automation is cheaper. As an example, look at how Amazon moves goods around its warehouses and understand we're likely going to see something like that hitting the all the major companies that have large warehousing/shipping aspects (Walmart, for example) within the next 20 years. Within 30, it's likely that technology moves to the stores (Costco, Walmart, etc).

Raising the minimum wage to try to keep up with that only speeds up the drive to automate, which makes it harder for low-to-no-skill workers to find jobs.

Unless they bake bread in which case they can still pay their employees less. Because Newsome’s buddy owned a bunch of Panera’s or some shite.

Nothing says “we know this isn’t a good idea” like trying to spare your friends from having to do it.

This is shocking news…..


to no one. So in essence the demand for a very high minimum wage people not only crippled the industry, but also displaced workers in the process

Hmmmm...

I wonder what California has done in the last year that could have caused this?

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There were 2 choices, cut back on workers or raise the prices….they chose to implement technology and cut back on workers.

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Yea people are expensive.

A $1 Million machine that replaces 6 workers (3 shifts 2 people) might replace $40k in salary per but then $60k in related costs (training, insurance etc...) pays for itself in 3 years (Assuming low maintenance costs over the first 3 years).

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Yep. But the CEOs get a huge bonus when this happens while the workers get nothing but minimum wages. Imagine that

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One is easily replaceable. One is not.

Your bleeding heart can’t handle reality.

I just thank the good lord California pumps by far the most money into the American economy.