Weatherman2020
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A. I made my much of my wealth designing automated machines, some over a hundred feet long. I used a hundred man hours for discussion purposes. Most people have the intellect to understand this. My bad for leaving you behind in the discussion.So you build a robot. 100 man hours. Takes the job of a full time employee who was working 170 hours a month.Onward march of progress. This is how it works. There were a lot of buggy-whip manufacturers that lost their jobs when cars became ubiquitous.
If robot restaurants are more efficient than human-staffed restaurants, then so be it. We, as a society, adapt. Every advancement will create jobs as well - building and maintaining these robots, for example.
Blaming a minimum wage for progress is a little silly.
Now you maintain it. A technician works one hour a month taking care of it.
I know math r hard, but this technology is a dead end street with civilization running full speed into a jobless society with no one being able to obtain anything except what the government decides to hand them that day.
So what do you suggest?
Stifle innovation to protect unskilled and inefficient jobs?
As a side note - the robot in your link is 14 feet long, several thousand pounds and cost millions of dollars to build. We're not talking just "100 man hours".
B. I have no solution for the problem. It's 2 high speed trains running towards each other and no way to stop it.