Thread: You want $15 an hour? Ok, here's a Big Mac ATM
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Old 01-28-2017, 02:32 PM  
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
$15/hr means nothing to automation plans. I'm sitting in a Mcdonalds right now in FL, where they pay workers $8 & some change per hour..

You know what they just installed? Order taking kiosks to cut out the need of cashiers. They are replacing $8/hr workers with kiosks..

It has nothing to do with the minimum wage rate and everything to do with advancing technology which allows them to cut workers out of the equation at any price.
So you are saying that increasing 8 to 15 would not make automation move at a faster pace?
Nobody is claiming that there won't be any automation at 8 and only at 15...
They are claiming that it would quicken the process.
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