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

[Azuren]

Mr Puggsly said:

Azuren said:
I like how he immediately stops thinking about the welfare of employees in the face of making slightly less money. CEOs are scumbags.

He wasn't the one made an unreasonably high minimum wage.

Also, we can't stop progress to save jobs. As time goes on machines will inevitably replace a lot of jobs. Not necessarily a terrible thing, with machines doing a lot of the work perhaps that will create an opportunity for more people to go to school to develop a career.

If businesses are making more money and employeeing less people I'm guessing they will get taxed more. Atleast I assume.

Replacing jobs with robots isn't progress, at least not the kind any economy needs. $15 is way too high to pay burger flippers, but $7.25 is too low to pay many other jobs that exploit minimum wage. The problem isn't the minimum wage, or the job itself: It's these giant collections of excrement called "CEOs" that would sooner put millions out of jobs than to take a 1% pay decrease. They continuously try to shift blame elsewhere, but at the end of every argument, they're the ones who decide what happens. Example of when companies do right by their employees, regardless of current minimum wages and laws: Hobby Lobby. 

 

Hobby Lobby pays part time employees $11 an hour, and it pays full time employees $15. All positions have room for raises, though there's a cap on how much a position can be paid. They offer reasonably priced benefits, and you get every Sunday off to go to church or, like me, not go to church. 

 

The problem is there are very few companies that recognize their employees as people.