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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by giantrobot on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:30PM (#24216828)
Fast food has always been about efficiency, consistency, and streamlining. If Flippy has existed in 1961 when Roy Kroc bought out McDonald's it would have been a fixture in every location.

Making fast food isn't a job "meant for humans", it's a job humans perform for the legal minimum of pay. The moment fast food chains can replace humans with Flippy without a PR backlash they will do so without hesitation.

Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by CarbyAu on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:03AM (#24219756)
Even with a PR backlash, providing the sums work out correctly. I have no doubt it'll happen, just a matter of when.

I like the idea of humans not having to do trivial work.

But I am concerned as to whether as a society we'll transition to "more leisure without reduction of living standards" or "higher competition to make ends meet, with the 'failures' being cast aside".

So far it is the latter.