Humans Need Not Apply: Fast Food $15 Minimum Wage Strike Edition

[The Mad Monk]

I guess you haven't seen this.

[Aeson]

I don't see anything in the specs that would suggest it's capable of putting spit or pubes in the burger if the customer is somehow disagreeable to the staff. So they'll still need to hire humans for that.

[Hauldren Collider]

Not that we should save fast food jobs for people but really, what do you do with low skill workers?

Soylent Green

[Ben Kenobi]

I celebrated strike day by going to a Jack In The Box and using the kiosk.

Is this a thing the Evil Conservatives club is doing?

[The Mad Monk]

Yes, but it's better if you can cross a picket line...and they didn't have one.

[Ben Kenobi]

Yes, but it's better if you can cross a picket line...and they didn't have one.

I guess I'll have to do the same in solidarity.

[Sava]

Will this have any impact on the amount of diarrhea I get from fast food?

[The Mad Monk]

Yes, probably. Higher quality food for less money.

...I don't necessarily mean from the automated shops either, BTW.

"Human Created" artisan food will become a thing, and drive a premium, if only because they will not be able to compete on price alone anymore.

[Sava]

So McDonalds and others will stop serving meat slurry burgers?

[The Mad Monk]

This is why you should never, ever watch sausage being made.

[regexcellent]

idgaf about meat slurry burgers.

Tonight my dinner was two big spoonfuls of peanut butter plus I ate a brick of ramen noodles raw and washed it down with a ****ton of water (it turns your stomach if you don't do that).

Oh yeah and a three day old apple fritter.

****. I could go for some burger king. Wonder if they're still open.

[regexcellent]

I just opened a yogurt. Key lime pie flavored. Pretty good but more importantly it has a ton of calories. **** progresso soup, I hate that ****. 120 calories for the whole ****ing can, **** you that's a waste of my time.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Not that we should save fast food jobs for people but really, what do you do with low skill workers?

You can always have low, or near zero unemployment - the only question is whether the society wants to bear the costs of doing so (either educational - which is the correct avenue, or only governmental, ie workers remain low skilled, but employed).

[Sir Og]

The tax and welfare system should be set up so that it automatically adjusts to people's preferences for work/leasure.

There should be fairly high marginal taxes so that there are enough money to pay to the people who are not working. The amount being paid to unemployed however should be fixed and individual benefits should decrease as number of unemployed increases.

however we are no where near having not enough work for humans yet. It is still mostly tight money and too rigid labor markets.

[The Mad Monk]

We don't have enough work for humans increasingly due to automation. It will likely hit a critical mass sooner than you think, and that's what we need to prepare for.

My goal would be a flat tax, a flat Basic Income uneffected by that tax, and a gutting of the tax and welfare systems that came before.

People will thereby be able to have their preferences for work / leisure met by deciding to work on the remaining marketable skills, or not.