As we developed machine ability faster than we trained people for new job openings, people found out they were not the buggy whip manufacturer, they were the horse.
With full time (40 hour) employees at $7.50 an hour, the robot would have to cover 90 hours a week (out of a total availability of 168 hours) to be a better investment in the first year alone with a cost of $35k. That's 2 full time employee shifts and 10 hours. At a 24 hour McDs, if the robot is doing 1 station all day, that covers 3 shifts. You're getting the work of that third employee at a 1/4 minimum wage, or all 3 for less than $4 an hour. The second year, those employees have to compete with whatever a maintenance contract is for that machine, which is definitely going to be less than $35k. There is no way to make those 3 employee's competitive with that robot at today's wages. It's not the $15 wage pushing this. It's going to happen either way. For every one of these robots, that's 3 people competing for other jobs, driving those wages down. Eventually when you expect a livable wage at what you do, you'll be the unreasonable one.
You mean this College?
http://cla.umn.edu/academics-e...
(note those are only the majors in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota)
But, as someone who does not suffer from Autism, I understand what you are trying to say. You mean "arts/humanities" but are saying "Liberal Arts." And you are correct, not everywhere uses the term "Liberal Arts" to include their physics program.
"Liberal Arts" isn't a political term. It's the idea that to be a free thinker you need an exposure to a broad training. English majors having to take math and science, physicists needing to take life sciences and art, and cs majors needing to take physics.
"Liberal Arts" actually include hard sciences, and is a rather broad grouping which equates to "not tech/vocational school." I think you mean to hate on the Humanities, and enrollment in these majors are actually in decline.
You obviously are not the owner of the technology referred to above, Mr. Anonymous. If technology is doing all the work, could you be said to have earned any of the resulting wealth? Though I guess as an American (or American-ish), you sure as hell will fight to convince us you deserve it. Of course, it's all a Luddite conspiracy and people will have so much work to do (and it will be more fulfilling and lest drudgery) they won't have time to argue about redistributing wealth produced by non-person entities.
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As we developed machine ability faster than we trained people for new job openings, people found out they were not the buggy whip manufacturer, they were the horse.
With full time (40 hour) employees at $7.50 an hour, the robot would have to cover 90 hours a week (out of a total availability of 168 hours) to be a better investment in the first year alone with a cost of $35k. That's 2 full time employee shifts and 10 hours. At a 24 hour McDs, if the robot is doing 1 station all day, that covers 3 shifts. You're getting the work of that third employee at a 1/4 minimum wage, or all 3 for less than $4 an hour. The second year, those employees have to compete with whatever a maintenance contract is for that machine, which is definitely going to be less than $35k. There is no way to make those 3 employee's competitive with that robot at today's wages. It's not the $15 wage pushing this. It's going to happen either way. For every one of these robots, that's 3 people competing for other jobs, driving those wages down. Eventually when you expect a livable wage at what you do, you'll be the unreasonable one.
You mean this College? http://cla.umn.edu/academics-e... (note those are only the majors in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota) But, as someone who does not suffer from Autism, I understand what you are trying to say. You mean "arts/humanities" but are saying "Liberal Arts." And you are correct, not everywhere uses the term "Liberal Arts" to include their physics program. "Liberal Arts" isn't a political term. It's the idea that to be a free thinker you need an exposure to a broad training. English majors having to take math and science, physicists needing to take life sciences and art, and cs majors needing to take physics.
"Liberal Arts" actually include hard sciences, and is a rather broad grouping which equates to "not tech/vocational school." I think you mean to hate on the Humanities, and enrollment in these majors are actually in decline.
You obviously are not the owner of the technology referred to above, Mr. Anonymous. If technology is doing all the work, could you be said to have earned any of the resulting wealth? Though I guess as an American (or American-ish), you sure as hell will fight to convince us you deserve it. Of course, it's all a Luddite conspiracy and people will have so much work to do (and it will be more fulfilling and lest drudgery) they won't have time to argue about redistributing wealth produced by non-person entities.