Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour

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Automation, robots doing annoying tasks, should be something desired obviously towards human progress. The money the company saves without paying those salaries should benefit the company but partly the citizens as well (Human progress). That's already achieved through tax, but maybe adjustments would be needed if large numbers of basic tasks are replaced by robots. But basically the whole goal and idea behind this is that through more automation, humans would have to work less. Like we could end up having to spend less % of our weekly time at work. Shorter work weeks always happen through progress and it's a good thing. Also machines will replace low paying basic-tasks jobs by higher paying jobs (machine technicians, engineers, and a whole lot of things), also lets be real those jobs are also often more passionating that doing the same thing over and over forever, most ppl dislike that. Basically with these new better paying jobs and the increased revenue of the company and the citizens more tax money will be generated and if the money(wealth) is actually well spent and redistributed to the citizens it will end up benefiting all.

As more hours of work a week and a day diminish, because less work is needed that would mean humans could eventually focus on other things that just doing routinely tasks. More free hours means more free time for all. A small workforce will always be required though to maintain and monitor the machines but the hours needed to do so would be distributed to much less hourly weight on the population.

Also if anyone thinks this is a mentality against working hard or anything that is not the case because a huge amount of work and development would be needed for this but it is obviously possible with the technology today. Also I hope it's clear to everyone that working hourly wages is basically selling your time, so having to sell less of your time should be regarded as a good thing.