The amount a company pays now at minimum wage, full time with benifits, it is cheaper to buy a new 35k robot every year. Basically if the minium wage did not change and even if the robot only worked for 1 year, you would probably break even. But the robots are going to last more than 1 year so blaming minimum wage is just a cop out for something they plan to do anyways because all they care about is the bottom line. Banks got ATM, grocery stores got self check out, these things did not occur because wages went up.
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The amount a company pays now at minimum wage, full time with benifits, it is cheaper to buy a new 35k robot every year. Basically if the minium wage did not change and even if the robot only worked for 1 year, you would probably break even. But the robots are going to last more than 1 year so blaming minimum wage is just a cop out for something they plan to do anyways because all they care about is the bottom line. Banks got ATM, grocery stores got self check out, these things did not occur because wages went up.