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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by morelisp on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:59PM (#29971065)
> Who's pouring the drinks at your McDonalds?

Generally, prior to COVID-19, the customers themselves.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by toast0 on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:59PM (#29971633)
How about in the drive through? Moving the pouring of dine in/take out to the customers happened mid 200x, and saved labor back then, too.
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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by morelisp on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:08PM (#29971709)
> Moving the pouring of dine in/take out to the customers happened mid 200x

At least 10 years earlier. Probably more but that's outside my memory range.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by toast0 on Monday January 17, 2022 @06:30PM (#29972920)
Here's a discussion from 2002 where someone says 'all the new McDonald's have serve-yourself-drinks' but older stores still had them behind the counter. At some point, most existing stores retrofitted self-serve, too. Other chains had it way earlier for sure.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-refill-policy-in...

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by staticassertion on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:32PM (#29971389)
Via a machine.
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