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Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net)
An anonymous reader quotes Recode:
Technology that replaces food service workers is already here. Sushi restaurants have been using machines to roll rice in nori for years, an otherwise monotonous and time-consuming task. The company Suzuka has robots that help assemble thousands of pieces of sushi an hour. In Mountain View, California, the startup Zume is trying to disrupt pizza with a pie-making machine. In Shanghai, there's a robot that makes ramen, and some cruise ships now mix drinks with bartending machines.
More directly to the heart of American fast-food cuisine, Momentum Machines, a restaurant concept with a robot that can supposedly flip hundreds of burgers an hour, applied for a building permit in San Francisco and started listing job openings this January, reported Eater. Then there's Eatsa, the automat restaurant where no human interaction is necessary, which has locations popping up across California.
More directly to the heart of American fast-food cuisine, Momentum Machines, a restaurant concept with a robot that can supposedly flip hundreds of burgers an hour, applied for a building permit in San Francisco and started listing job openings this January, reported Eater. Then there's Eatsa, the automat restaurant where no human interaction is necessary, which has locations popping up across California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ...sad that idiocracy may eventually be viewed as a documentary.
Someone had to do it.
meanwhile the rest of us want timely service, properly cooked food, correct change...can't wait for robots to have the jobs.
Well, sure, but these were primarily women's jobs at the time they were automated out of existence. "Washerwoman" is common parlance.
Want to know what other woman's job got automated out of existence? Computer. Many women were computers. They were replaced by electronic computers. So replaced that you automatically think of a computer as a machine today, and "Many women were computers" sounds funny.
Bruce Perens.
Why are they earners? Doesn't earning imply doing something, rather than having something? I thought the latter was called a "rentier".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
By your line of reasoning all taxation is just like your Venezuela scenario.
Meanwhile most normal people think some level of taxation is necessary for a government to run so then the debate from there is what is reasonable.
Also, UBI isnt really socialism as it has nothing to do with the state controlling the means of production.
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Maybe crap beans, maybe just old beans that are open the atmosphere. Maybe poor servicing.
Any coffee snob will tell you that beans go bad within minutes/hours/days of roasting (depending on snobbery level).
As to servicing, there's only one or two commercial vendors for this stuff in this region. The coffee I get from these machines is always consistent and OK if from a machine that sees real volume and regular servicing (ie, fresh food is vended from the death wheel beside it, and coffee-drinking factory/commercial workers have no other source for coffee during their 8-hour shift).
This, contrasted with other coffee: I used to get a cup of coffee and sometimes a snack every morning before my work commute, always at the same place (which was the only place between my house and the highway).
Usually, the coffee was fine -- no it wasn't a delicacy of aromatics and fine notes, but functional and tasty. They sold plenty of it every morning, so it didn't hang around long. Sometimes, though, it just tasted like socks and was undrinkable swill.
There was nothing wrong with their process: Rinse things out, use automatic Bunn burr grinder to put fresh grounds into a clean filter and filter-holder, install said filter-holder into coffee Bunn maker with giant warming vat with a spout, push button to add hot water (and coffee!) into giant warming vat. Not ideal, but not horrible, and it tended to keep oxygen away from the brewed coffee (which is always good).
Then, one morning, the giant warming vat was empty, and I got to learn Socks Coffee happens.
I asked the nice lady at the register if she could make more coffee, and she looked at me sternly like I was jabbing her with the pokey end of an umbrella and wheeled around the counter. She pulled the filter-holder from the machine, inspected it for a moment, saw that it was full of used coffee grounds, put it back in and pushed the "Brew" button to purposefully fill the warmer-vat with second-run coffee.
Then she looked at me like, "Are you happy, now?"
I put my morning snack down and never spent another dime there.
Sometimes, people just don't give a shit -- whether with coffee-brewing machines, or any other aspect of life.
There's no good reason for the self-contained vending machines to produce bad coffee, though it isn't all that difficult to have them produce rather good coffee -- either. It just takes someone behind the scenes who gives a shit.
Kid-proof tablet..
Why would you buy such shit? I'd rather go home and fix a peanut butter sandwich than eat that fucking slop at McD's and some of the other fast "food" chains. As fast food has raced to the bottom I can't believe people still buy it...
And as greedy billionaires race to the top to become trillionaires who control this industry, it will be illegal for you to "go home and fix" anything.
Greed will have its way, and this will be the end game. You might have noticed in our greed-fueled capitalistic society that the drive for more profits is absolutely unending.
Corporations with hundreds of billions in cash reserves. Individuals with 10 times the money they could ever spend in a lifetime. Do you honestly think they're going to stop with the drive for more and more? Think their moral or political compass will suddenly reset? If we actually thought it would, we wouldn't be sitting here discussing how the greedy elite are buying robots to replacing humans as the "solution" to humans demanding an increase to minimum wage.
UBI is the solution? Once automation and AI destroy the concept of human employment, don't think for a second trillioniares won't be lobbying to pay the unemployable masses any more than a welfare wage. The next wave of capitalism is writing itself to be the last one, all because of of the disease of greed.