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A $15/hr minimum-wage-worker (burger flipper) will not exist -- a machine will take his job and he needs to be either retrained or he will be living at taxpayer expense on welfare -- this may become true in 50% of such minimum-wage-workers in 10 years.
Your argument makes no sense to me.
Robots can be made to cut lawns one tech supervising a robot gang. You would still need a few people to do the detail work in the gardens. But simple tasks can be automated. Robots get no paycheck, no social benefits or robot-fare. When we are done working them to junk robots get melted down as scrap.
Robots are a depreciated expense as compared to wages and benefits as being a COGS or cost of operations 100% expense. Still with a 5 or 7 year depreciation schedule -- robotics and automation will make economic sense.
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