https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-restaurant-staff-workers-wages-minimum-automation-menu-prices-2021-7
lmao, I'm calling bullshit, automating is fucking expensive. But even if it were true, good. Fuck these jobs, no one want's to do them and the more automated capitalism becomes the more it breaks and the faster people realise it doesn't work.
A dying empire making empty threats to desperately keep the peasants under their boot.
A dying empire making empty threats to desperately keep the peasants under their boot.
Have to say it's been awesome seeing workers putting pressure on small business tyrants like this.
The thing that bites these idiots in the ass is that they have been pretty mask off about the fact that they were always going to start automating as much as they can anyway. If you're being offered pay that doesn't even meet your basic needs and your job isn't too secure then why bother in the first place? Eventually, the threats and guilt-tripping stops working and people tell employers to go fuck themselves.
This is the true test of "It's your choice to work there."
My wife got a pay raise from $9/hr to $15 because they couldn't find anyone to hire. Thank you based extended UI
Just scrolling thru random social media, I see more of it now than at any other point. People turning on billionaires, executives, CEOs...
It would be awesome if it weren't because of imminent catastrophe
We should raise the minimum wage to $30/hr so all these restaurants completely automate. That's how it works
Since chuds unironically believe this is how it works they should be all for increased minimum wages because it will drive innovation.
What is the point of this article? Like, I guess kudos to her for being the only business owner to have the sense to actually do the thing they always threatened workers with and automate since she couldn't get the cheap labor she wanted.
The notion that they just have to raise prices on customers is bullshit though, these people could just take a little less money for themselves, but then that wouldn't fit the profit-hog ethos of the US business owner.
It's agitprop masquerading as news. It exists to give Fox News and MSNBC liberals something to agree over: "If you raise wages, all the jobs go away. Now starve, peasant!" It reinforces the worldview of the business owner as the enlightened czar whose needs and opinions come, naturally, before all else. A million articles like this and you get quite an atmosphere for the rich to live in!
Also, it never says how MUCH she would have to raise prices. To keep the same profits its probably less than 25 cents per item.
In libertarian economics 101 I was told that increases in labor cost are always passed on to the customer. Taking less profit is impossible.
She says technology isn't a replacement yet she went with technology rather than hiring and paying someone $15/hr. Yeah ok, good. :bernie-pout:
"S-See t-this is what will happen i-if you don't work for scraps! Y-you don't want this to happen do you?! You better apply for the j-job rrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!"
Nice try. :michael-laugh:
What's this, a PMC journal? I recently optimized my socks for the best bang for my buck. Where's my Insider article? Fuck her, I hope all her staff unionizes and then all the unions join together and make a new government and then they all impliment socialism and take over your restaurants and then tear them down to make more park land and then send you to a gulag
It’s just propaganda on behalf of the petty boug, complete bullshit.
"I decided not to solve the problem with my business and instead whine on yet another anti-labor automation grift article", says pissbaby small business owner.
Hypothetically if this does happen expect a lot of the voice comms to be smashed maybe by workers but more by customers because the machine can't understand them and keeps messing up their order.
Americans are always much braver in their imaginations than in real life. I'd expect a lot of people to grumble and whine, but very few of them would smash anything about it. They would quickly just get used to talking to a robot to get their slop imo.
I don't know they do have anger and I think part of working in fast food is appeasing that anger through verbal or nonverbal means. With a machine though the machine can't do the nonverbal signs needed so no appeasement. Wanna say it the same as road rage where people feel like this car transgressed against them and not caring but idk just speculating :shrug-outta-hecks:
I could buy some chud running a truck into one and driving off angrily when he couldn't get his treats. Actually, it could even be a pig, pigs spend much of their time driving around going from drive-thru to drive-thru.
Checkers drive thrus can barely keep the mic and speaker setup working. If she can't imagine the expenditure for paying $15 an hour no way she is going to be buying well built and tested automation. It won't last and she won't pay to have it fixed properly.
Voice recognition drive thrus! HAHA, how to make sure i never go to your restaurant 101
