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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Dear Striking Fast-Food Workers: Meet The Machine That Just Put You Out Of A
Job
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2015 17:06 -0500
Today, U.S. fast-food workers will strike across 270 cities in a protest for
higher wages and union rights that they hope will catch the attention of
candidates in 2016 elections, organizers said.
The walkouts will be followed by protests in 500 cities by low-wage workers
in such sectors as fast food and home and child care, a statement by
organizers of the Fight for $15 campaign said on Monday.
The protests and strikes are aimed at gaining candidates’ support heading
into the 2016 election for a minimum wage of $15 an hour and union rights,
it said.
The strikes and protests will include workers from McDonald’s, Wendy’s,
Burger King , KFC and other restaurants, the statement said.
And while we sympathize with their demands for higher wages, here is the
simple reason why they will be very much futile.
Dear fast food workers of the US - presenting you nemesis: the Momentum
Machines burger maker.
According to a recent BofA reported on how robotics will reshape the world,
San Francisco start up Momentum Machines are out to fully automate the
production of burgers with the aim of replacing a human fast food worker.
The machine can shape burgers from ground meat, grill them to order with the
specified amount of char, toast buns, add tomatoes, onions, pickles, and
finally place it on a conveyor belt.
The robot is shown below. It occupies 24 square feet, and is much smaller
and efficient than most assembly-line fast-food operations. It provides "
gourmet cooking methods never before used in a fast food restaurant" and
will deposit the completed burger into a bag. It does all of this without a
trace of attitude.
According to public data, the company's robot can "slice toppings like
tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger
, giving you the freshest burger possible." Unlike human workers, the robot
is "more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour
" or a burger every 10 seconds.
Furthermore, future generations of the device "will offer custom meat grinds
for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground
to order? No problem."
As the company's website adds, "our various technologies can produce an ever
-growing list of common choices like salads, sandwiches, hamburgers, and
many other multi-ingredient foods with a gourmet focus."
But most importantly, it has no wage demands: once one is purchashed it will
work with 100% efficiency for years. And it never goes on strike.
As the company's co-founder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his "device
isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely
obviate them."
The company's philosophy on making millions of fast food workers obsolete:
The issue of machines and job displacement has been around for centuries
and economists generally accept that technology like ours actually causes
an increase in employment.
The three factors that contribute to this are
the company that makes the robots must hire new employees,
the restaurant that uses our robots can expand their frontiers of
production which requires hiring more people, and
the general public saves money on the reduced cost of our burgers.
This saved money can then be spent on the rest of the economy.
This is a major problem for the US economy, which once built on a
manufacturing backbone, has seen the fastest jobs growth in recent years for
workers employed by "food service and drinking places" i.e., fast food
workers, waiters and bartenders.
Finally, for those complaining that there will be no "human touch" left to
take the orders, robots have that covered too:
And now it's time to calculate how many tens if not hundreds of billions in
additional welfare spending these soon to be unemployed millions in low-
skilled workers will cost US taxpayers. | f***e
发帖数: 5443 | | a*******1
发帖数: 1554 | 3 所以本版右派就是精神分裂。之前我就说过现在是机器替代手工的大趋势，别说美国，
很多国内的餐馆都是机器人当服务员，本版右派就尽可能编造理由抵赖，现在自己也这
么说了。因此奥巴马还是很牛逼的，出台了众筹法案，让普通人也能获得高的投资收益
，让机器人打工，毕竟不需要这么多人工作了。 | t**********i
发帖数: 113 | 4 所以要搞南方右派嘛，大家都不要读书，读圣经会打枪就可以了。把左逼发明的电脑自
动化都取消，回到100年前手工操作时代，充分就业。
【在 a*******1 的大作中提到】
: 所以本版右派就是精神分裂。之前我就说过现在是机器替代手工的大趋势，别说美国，
: 很多国内的餐馆都是机器人当服务员，本版右派就尽可能编造理由抵赖，现在自己也这
: 么说了。因此奥巴马还是很牛逼的，出台了众筹法案，让普通人也能获得高的投资收益
: ，让机器人打工，毕竟不需要这么多人工作了。
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