As pressure mounts to raise the wages of fast food workers, advocates may want to take note that such wage increases eventually pass a threshold where it makes financial sense to simply invest in automation. As Grocery Store cashiers learned, these jobs are not a given. We are all competing not just with each other but with robots.
One of the primary reasons that the gap between the rich and poor has increased so much in the past 20 years has been the rise in IT. Once we purchase a computer, robot, etc. its capabilities – its output and productivity are owned by the buyer which increases the wealth generated by that person.
As people demand McDonalds pay workers $15 an hour and the government insists that they also provide health care, restaurant owners are increasingly evaluating whether to simply replace their work force with machines.
Naturally, in 2017 when today’s “living wage advocate” is ordering their Big Mac from a friendly touch screen and having it delivered momentarily by a robot they’ll make no connection between how their beliefs resulted in more people living in poverty. Instead, they’ll blame McDonalds. They’ll blame greedy restaurant owners. But they won’t consider that perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea to price people out of their workforce.
Good luck getting credit for that, and with their slave wages, they can't save enough to even get enough to start their own business. This is why income inequality is bad- it's a snowballing effect- poverty is one of the most expensive things out there.
Exactly. The entire system is rigged to keep people from doing exactly that. They are so busy working 50 hours a week, barely paying their living expenses, and they are supposed to magically find 4 million in financing?
The fact is most business owners want to pay as little as possible so they can keep the biggest chunk possible. If they find 'suckers' to pay bottom dollar for, they will hire them. This is why we need govt. regulation to keep the wages reasonable, a base line. $7.25 is ludicrous, and needs to be doubled immediately.
I read a story of a worker that worked at a place for 12 years, and over that 12 years he never got a single wage other than the federally mandated minimum wage increases. The owner of that company should be shot for paying the guy the same for 12 years, that's inhumane. But these owners/ceos will continue to do this, which is why we need regulation.
Automation is largely a failure, and will continue to be a failure. I am laughing at all of the money these companies wasted to automate, and then they have to scrap these expensive machines after a few years.
then they have to scrap these expensive machines after a few years.
Not necessarily. Demand/satisfaction with self-checkout was overestimated/oversold but it won't go away. One employee can manage 4 kiosks, maybe more, and I still prefer self-checkout about 15-20% of the time, especially when I have only a few items - almost always get out of Dodge quicker. Most of the time, I'll use a conventional checkout lane but that doesn't mean self-checkout has zero appeal. It will remain one of your checkout options for some time to come for many retailers.
On one hand, it sounds gross - some machine will make burgers for me? Really? But on the other hand, machine wouldn't spit in your burger if it's having a bad day))
The truth is, when we have plentiful access to plant-based foods, and understand that eating animals is not necessary to good health, then the choice to eat animals anyway demonstrates the desire to intentionally hurt others. No matter how much we may talk about kindness, no matter how much we may practice it elsewhere, as long as we demand that living, feeling individuals be harmed and killed for our pleasure— as long as we choose violence over compassion— then we do not live a good or just life. Far greater than the sum of our good acts is the trail of blood, suffering and death we willfully and needlessly leave behind us. - See more at: http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/saddest-slaughterhouse-video-ever-shows-no-blood-or-slaughter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreeFromHarm+%28Free+from+Harm%29#sthash.TSgOYgwD.dpuf
The truth is, when we have plentiful access to plant-based foods, and understand that eating animals is not necessary to good health, then the choice to eat animals anyway demonstrates the desire to intentionally hurt others. No matter how much we may talk about kindness, no matter how much we may practice it elsewhere, as long as we demand that living, feeling individuals be harmed and killed for our pleasure— as long as we choose violence over compassion— then we do not live a good or just life. Far greater than the sum of our good acts is the trail of blood, suffering and death we willfully and needlessly leave behind us. - See more at: http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/saddest-slaughterhouse-video-ever-shows-no-blood-or-slaughter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreeFromHarm+%28Free+from+Harm%29#sthash.TSgOYgwD.dpuf
The truth is, when we have plentiful access to plant-based foods, and understand that eating animals is not necessary to good health, then the choice to eat animals anyway demonstrates the desire to intentionally hurt others. No matter how much we may talk about kindness, no matter how much we may practice it elsewhere, as long as we demand that living, feeling individuals be harmed and killed for our pleasure— as long as we choose violence over compassion— then we do not live a good or just life. Far greater than the sum of our good acts is the trail of blood, suffering and death we willfully and needlessly leave behind us. - See more at: http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/saddest-slaughterhouse-video-ever-shows-no-blood-or-slaughter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreeFromHarm+%28Free+from+Harm%29#sthash.TSgOYgwD.dpuf
Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Ever Shows No Blood Or Slaughter
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Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Ever Shows No Blood Or Slaughter
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Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Ever Shows No Blood Or Slaughter
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"There are no magical slaughterhouses where animals are fed their favorite meal, make a last phone call to a loved one and voluntarily hold their breath until they die. The act of slaughter is violent, vicious, bloody and hellish. The animals do not sacrifice themselves for your pleasure, tradition or greed. They are dragged in, kicking and screaming until their last breath. Don't fool yourself into thinking that you can eat meat, dairy and eggs and remain disconnected from this violence.The only way out is VEGAN."
The Saddest slaughterhouse footage ever shows no blood or slaughter
Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Ever Shows No Blood Or Slaughter - See more at: http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/saddest-slaughterhouse-video-ever-shows-no-blood-or-slaughter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreeFromHarm+%28Free+from+Harm%29#sthash.TSgOYgwD.dpuf
Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Ever Shows No Blood Or Slaughter - See more at: http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/saddest-slaughterhouse-video-ever-shows-no-blood-or-slaughter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreeFromHarm+%28Free+from+Harm%29#sthash.TSgOYgwD.dpuf
“Saying eating animals is “yummy” as a justification for killing them is pretty much the same argument as saying rape is okay since it feels good to the rapist. Civilized people require more than sensory pleasure to justify behaviors.”
not having a central nervous system, how is it possible for a plant to register pain? if you believe this kind of false logic, you would no sooner cut your lawn then you would chop up a live dog.
not having a central nervous system, how is it possible for a plant to register pain? if you believe this kind of false logic, you would no sooner cut your lawn then you would chop up a live dog.
You check it out. You will find many interesting things that have been discovered when things have been hooked up to a polygraph that rationally can't be explained away. If you don't want to believe it, your loss. Everyone has to make their own decisions.
if kindness, compassion and morality are not enough, why not go vegan for the purely selfish reason of personal health?
"The healthcare company’s peer-reviewed medical science journal tells physicians to promote plant-based diets to patients. To address the rising cost of healthcare and skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, medical publication The Permanente Journal recently released an article encouraging physicians to advise patients to reduce meat, dairy, and processed food consumption and implement a plant-based diet. It points to research showing that consuming whole foods can reduce the need for medication for chronic illnesses and decrease risk of fatal ischemic heart disease, all while offering the most cost-effective prevention and low-risk medical intervention. “Healthy eating may be best achieved with a plant-based diet … Physicians should consider recommending a plant-based diet to all their patients,” the article states."
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