ClearConscience Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Panera Bread Will Replace Cashiers With Robots By 2016 From 2011: McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers What does all of this mean? It means that the State has increased the cost of labor to the point where it has become economical to use machines in lieu of people. Lower taxes. Lower expense from mandatory benefits. Lower HR-related expenses. Less risk of violating labor regulations. Less litigation (fewer lawsuits for discrimination, special accommodations, slip-and-fall, etc.) Fewer protests, union shenanigans. Firstly, if a robot can perform a particular job as effectively, or more effectively, than a human person, the robot will be selected above the human person. This is a fact. Where's the source? There's no empirical evidence. I would suggest you think about it for literally half of a second. The only thing that an increase in minimum wages does is it accelerates the value of automation as a means to replace human labor. The fact of the matter is that this is unavoidable. The result is going to be a group of uneducated, reliant, and helpless leaches on state welfare. AND IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT! I think the conservative majority is being pulled into a group-think that people who are on welfare are the enemy. No, they've been given a well-arbitrated incentive to remain on welfare. It's not their fault. People who are currently on welfare should agree with our position, that's the point I'm trying to make. And it's only going to get worse. Instead of granting free healthcare to people who are making shit money at McDonald's, we should offer free education, and loans that are REQUIRED to be paid back, to educate these people in order to get them into jobs that have a high demand. The amount of financial aid would be dependent on the demand for that particular job, at that particular time. i personally know of a ton of construction jobs that are unfilled. It requires a bachelor's degree in... anything. It doesn't matter what institution you went to. This is in Michigan, because I went to high school here and I have contacts from my high school peers, who are currently looking to employ reliable workers, and they will train them for however long it takes, at $10/hr or more, 40 hrs/week, with prospective bonuses and advancement. I mean, finding solid work is not hard here, and this is Michigan, 30 minutes from Detroit. They just need somebody who will show up to work, not complain, and want to be the best they can be on the job. That's what my contacts, several of them, have said. The problem is that you can live relatively comfortably by selling drugs on the street, and having a few needy kids that the government will compensate for. Literally, the government will give you money for having kids. If you're on crack, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes and weed, you can have kids that will be labelled "special needs", resulting in exorbitant amounts of money from the state. I know this because I've volunteered in primarily black school districts as a volunteer instructor and educator. I did this for multiple years. I volunteered, exclusively, in learning disabled (LD) and emotionally impaired (EI) classrooms within the black community. About 60% of the parents are the same. They literally manufacture, through any means necessary, LD and EI kids in order to reap state money, and it is always, ALWAYS, single mothers. It's disgusting. The parent-teacher conferences are the worst. I will have gone out and bought socks for a student, and then a week later see them without socks, in the middle of winter, before recess. I asked him, "Where are the socks I bought you?" Every time, liek clockwork, they would say, "My brothers or sisters stole them." It's not just socks. I would buy goose feather, down, winter coats for the kids that didn't have them. It was always stolen by their brothers and sisters (read:gangs). I would hug them and they would cry in my arms. This happened multiple times. It's bullshit. If you don't have sympathy for these people, then you're either ignorant or you have no empathy. You've never experienced it the way I have. You just haven't. I'm talking about 2nd and 3rd graders. They learn from an early age that you either take or get taken from. It's so systemic in black culture, that I get called racist by my peers. I cry for these kids and these arrogant assholes call me the racist. Yeah... I just wanted to share my thoughts on it, and I understand that it's anecdotal, but I feel like I've at least experienced the worst tha there is to offer in terms of impoverished, black, culture and how hard it is to escape it. I just hope you guys are willing to hear me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan C. Posted September 2, 2015 Author Share Posted September 2, 2015 Who do you want to expropriate in order to pay for the free education you want to offer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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