Stop defending humans over automation.
Machines dont talk shit to customers.
Machines dont make errors.
This surely must be a one-sided issue, right?
>Liberals have pushed Wendy's into deploying automated kiosks to over 6,000 stores by the end of the year.
>The company cites the coming rise of minimum wage as the main impetus to invest more heavily into automation. The higher wages make it more appealing to switch to fully automated stores.
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Who cares
There is no reason to use people when it becomes less cost-effective to do so.
i see nothing wrong with this
for the plebs that actually eat shit tier food
the vast majority of workers are far from replaceable by machines but yeah there's basically no reason to keep people working registers when it's more cost effective to use computers since the means to replace them already exist right now
but buy a machine today and you'll make up the cost in what a few years? How is this not in every damn fast food restaurant around the country
Ban assault computers.
Holy shit. Going to be alot of unemployment in the next 5-10 years 15-20years tops robots will be doing of the work.
Have fun trying to pay your shitbag employees $15 an hour while paying for thousands of those things
And the employees jobs get even easier
You retard a fucking touch screen is cheap and the whole point is not to have to pay some faggot 15 bucks per hour
wawa did this ten years ago
Less than that. Automation is getting cheaper by the minute.
>but buy a machine today and you'll make up the cost in what a few years?
1k on aliexpress
those things are easily a couple thousand dollars
Mass produced on a bulk Co tract probably less than a grand. And they don't whine about healthcare and scheduling.
They're a touch-screen with a single program loaded attached to a credit card swipe device. They're less technologically advanced than an iPad.
A McDonalds is open for at least 12 hours a day. If you're paying $15 an hour, each employee represents over $1200 a week in money you have to spend. Even if your cost estimate is true, the machine becomes profitable within a month.
I welcome this.
Surplus of labor results in a crisis that culminates in the forced introduction of a universal allowance which in theory would allow those capable in less fortunate circumstances to launchpad themselves into more technical fields and higher education.
Except if you're a dindu, then you're just going to buy fucking shanks and go on the piss with every friday.
Well, what are we going to do with all these unemployed?
Yes we will need then to repair the robots but it seems there will be a very large deficit in jobs lost.
They will save money in the long run and it would create jobs worth a damn, with the maintenance and such the machines will need.
>repair the robots
Implying someone out there isn't working on a robot that repairs robots that can repair other robots that repair robots.
>implying someone is not already working on a robot which identifies broken robots and lets other robots know that the broken robot needs to be repaired and the repair robots repair the broken robot
Oh I agree, just posting that because it's the usual retort people use with automation. I can't see this ending well.
You dumb bumpkins will be the ones giving Wendy's most of their revenue.
The only downside is it's going to slow down the line, because customers are retarded. Human cashiers are retarded too, but at least they use the ordering computer for 8 hours/day. Customers are going to stand there picking their butts and mashing at the screen with greasy, grimy fingers, furrowing their brows in desperate frustration.
>inb4 video of niggers arguing with then assaulting a kiosk
Fuck greedy corps.I hope they rot!!!!!
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Suppose the machines get to the point were they feel that being paid in electricity is not enough for them?
Thank god.
Not surprising that they're the first in the US to do this large scale. Wendy's has been pushing hard for a more modern image for the past few years to compete with places like Chipoltle. Pic related.
I still prefer their Dave Thomas "Old-fashioned Hamburgers" 80's-90's style restaurants though. Might be nostalgia.
>repairing robots
Kiosks aren't these error prone machines that would need constant maintenance and tune ups like heavy machinery. If anything they would just have to be cleaned up every now and then, and that doesn't require any new jobs.
You know, when Henry Ford gave people Saturday off, there was this huge thing going around how in fifteen, twenty years they wouldn't be working more than half the week?
Well guess what, robots aren't going to be shooting around that soon either. Fast-Food is prolly going to do this though.
That's why you hire a few guys to make sure everything works right. Get one guy to walk the floor (manager) and one-two people making food. Boom, Kiosk is now profitable.
THE KIOSK DOES IT FOR FREE
>be me
>go into Wendy's
>get greeted by robotic voice
>holyshitmypants.png
>nervous about ordering from machine teenagers
>food comes out pretty fast
>open box
>holy shit it looks just like the picture and it is free of pubes and spit
>tastes really good too not burnt or cold like its been left out
>mfw machines have made the nigger obsolete.
Recent Oxford study showed 47% of American jobs in jeopardy by 2034 due to automation.
It's all fine and good until you have a retard that can't figure out the machines and has a problem, or the machines break down.
Somebody still has to make the food too. Safe bet some fast food joints will be completely automated.
I don't wanna eat in a burger factory with no humanity in it.
Machines don't have an accent that's impossible to understand.
>You know, when Henry Ford gave people Saturday off, there was this huge thing going around how in fifteen, twenty years they wouldn't be working more than half the week?
What about all the unnecessary jobs that are made up to keep people under control? Corporate office slaves, HR. PR, administration of various sorts and so on. Many people nowadays are actually thinking their jobs are pointless.
We need to get rid of the fake jobs, increase automation and implement a universal basic income.
How about machines that get rid of useless bosses? Anyone in the corporate world knows this would save a huge amount on expenses.
Why would anyone agree to basic incomes? The corporations get the money. People who own the corporations get money, and unless they're taxed to shit, the nation isn't getting any of it. If anything, it'd just create a huge unemployment rate. Then, new jobs to fill them. Robotic managers, and programmers. People would be little more than managers as robots worked to do menial labor. Face it, rather than the manager position being eliminated, it will just be transferred.
robots cooking, robots cleaning, maybe some guy sitting there like a hotel manager to make sure nobody is stealing burgers. that's the way I see it.
>Liberals whine until they have a 15$ minimum wage to help the poor exploited employees
>Employees become too expensive for their shit tier labor so they are fired and replaced by robots
>Employee's new wage: $0.00 USD
oh im laffin
Karma's a bitch, isn't it?
robots should replace customers
perfect option for corps
Yes
>more unemployed in your community
>more crime/poverty/insecurity
>property values are driven down
>increased concentration of wealth and power
It'll happen to you some day too.
>mfw machines have made the nigger obsolete.
That's what they said about the cotton gin, and the tractor
That's why I oppose $15 minimum wage. People just get let go and prices go up. Its a temporary fix at best the leads to more problems.
>more unemployed in your community
Liberals love giving welfare because it gives them votes
>more crime/poverty/insecurity
This will give liberals more chances to push nanny-state laws and attack the second amendment
Was this the plan all along?
yeah and they are obsolete I don't get your point
No it doesn't moron, labor is small percent of prices.
Pretty fucking cheap compared to a year's salary
This makes sense only if the fast food workers get the same niggermoney. If not, this only contributes to wealth inequality which is currently a big problem for US society.
>Well, what are we going to do with all these unemployed?
What happened to horses after cars?
You stop breeding so many.
Population control.
agreed
>Machine for 1K
>pays for itself in two weeks replacing one employee at $60/day
Those fast food workers won't be able to repair robots.
All the Wendy's in my area have gone through similar remodeling. Hell, there's a big screen TV on the wall in the one closest to my house usually on the news or the ball game.
They're easily the best quality of the McDonald's-Burger King-Wendy's trio. If they keep pushing they'll reach Chipotle-Five Guys tier.
Sup Forums loves to give retardedly absurd solutions which will never work.
i just wonder how they're maintaining it? I guess it would only take a few software developers to replace thousands of employees across the chain
They havent invented a machine that can rape rob loot and murder indiscriminately, burn down its own factory while collecting gibs and blaming whitey yet.
It seems to have worked fine in china to curb population growth.
Your children will be placed in the custody of Carls Jr. Carl's Jr. Fuck you, I'm eating
kek
that's because Chinese are breeding like rabbits. Overpopulation is not an issue in US. Considering the fact that most people are doing mechanical jobs, they will be replaced. Also remember that big part of those people are unable to do anything creative.
My company does a lot of these remodels. Do yours have giant faux fireplaces on the wall? We had to go back and uninstall them all down here in Florida because theyre actual heaters
A fewjack in the box near my place have the touch screen order kiosks, idiots get so confused they interrupt cashiers constantly.
i'm surprised they haven't tried voice recognition yet.
but i guess it's not good enough to recognize nigger babble yet.
>Mfw I'm going to school for industrial automation
they will probably just get moved to the back to make the food anyway
>maybe some guy sitting there like a hotel manager to make sure nobody is stealing burgers
Someone still has to deal with inventory and loading the machines. Even the big guys like burger king and wendys just get a guy coming in the back with a dolly and a load of frozen stuff.
Man im so fucking glad im close to retirement age. The world is changing at a very fast pace now.
>touch screen that every man, woman, child, normie, jigaboo, tap dancer, paki, hobo and nose picking retread in front of you touched
>eat food with your hands after
>robots cooking, robots cleaning, maybe some guy sitting there like a hotel manager to make sure nobody is stealing burgers. that's the way I see it.
What if the robots kill him and steal the burgers?
poor people deserve slavery, not wages. Wages are nothing more than socialist wealth redistribution pushed by liberals and jews.
>machines dont make errors
what if they glitch?
That's maybe 2 months of checks
tax the machines and redistribute the wealth and ultimately realize that socialism is the future.
>>machines dont make errors
>what if they glitch?
That's not the main problem.
As it is now the cashier uses common machines to put in the order and handle the cash.
If you get rid of them the customer has to use the machine. That's what you are changing. But people are stupid and don't know how to use machines. We have self-checkout machines at Walmart and other places. What happens is that you have a bunch of employees at the machines to tell the customers how to use them.
>That person in the lower left hand corner subtly flipping the cameraman off
Kek
>What if they glitch
It can definitely happen
you'll be happy to know they've already touched the door handles, the pop-fountain buttons, your money etc...
beacuse my country is poor, and will have something like that 100 years after 1st world countries
what if a hacker makes all the money go to another account
What if I went back in time and impregnated your mother?
In 10 years things are going to suck. We are all going to forget how to speak. We will all be autistic wizards who can merely grunt. When you're old your robot nurse can do it all while you reminisce about silent Wendy's dinners with virtual girlfriends before you euthanise yourself
>This thread again
GET WITH THE TIMES MAAAN
Now get in your robot car and have it drive you off a mountain to scatter your ashes. The silent majority
>AT LEAST I HAD JAXX'S ARMS
...
Then I'd be a nigger.
holy shit, KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT
>labor is small percent of prices.
Found the socialist meme fag with no real business experience.
>mfw you espouse nigger economics.
>what if they glitch?
remote reboot or reload of the operating system. Making this redundant and remotely accessible is stupid easy.
There will be multiple systems so its not a big deal if one is down. Send your average geek squad tier pleb with a
new modular unit to replace it.
I told Sup Forums a couple of years ago this would happen sooner than later.
Most of you disagreed because you're afraid for your own job security and future instead of facing reality.
I'm a medicine student that is almost graduating. And even I realize that I will need to get reeducated within 10-15 years because surgery will get automated.
You guys need to accept that your entire lives will revolve around reeducating yourselves to switch careers the moment the jobs in one sector dry up.
It's the financial and basic manual labor that starts to get automated heavily right now.
Then it'll be Medical, IT and service jobs.
Save yourself some money while you still can to prepare yourself for reeducational expenses.
This shit is going to hit ALL of us.
they should really not automate after all mcdonalds still provides alot of jobs and all those workers will go on welfare
She should've bought more limes. Poor people need to eat lots of limes.
I love it every time I see news about increased automation on low-skilled, low-intelligence jobs. Simply because this is exactly what we claimed would happen.
So these workers will be stripped down to the bare essentials (like shoving shit out a window into a car), and the rest will be let go, and won't be able to find new jobs. Liberals will then blame it on the evil corporations and their evil need to make a profit.
>using your middle finger to press touchscreens
why do old people do this?
People have always adapted to automation. Nobody complains that we don't have bellhops to operate elevators for us or scarce access to clothing, cars, etc
to be fair "what families" could be 5 people, thats fuck all for 5 people for a week. BUT
BUT
I am a firm believer that people that cant afford kids shouldn't have any.
Behold the transhumanist agenda.