Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'

Things robots don't do/have: Attitude, norovirus, iPhone, twitter length attention span, Hep C, the 'runs', a hangover, a runny nose, a need to steal, a false SS#, a dirty uniform, an appetite, shedding skin/hair, a bus pass, a 'faulty' alarm clock, no babysitter, a special event every Sat, night, allergies, a sick puppy, a flat tire, bad alternator, 'beef' with another employee, romance w/manager, horseplay at work, spit, X boyfriends, forget to wash hands after restroom, and an entitled feeling. The robots won't smile and be friendly, but that is normal now anyways...

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. 

Considering what McDonalds does to teach it managment staff they will probally pour money into teaching some of the staff to fix the items themselves, or have a tech firm do it for them on the cheap like they do with all their other tech stuff. Trust me McDonald's Tech support and installers are horrid, but functionable.

Jesus, and that was just posted today, almost as if in mockery of this discussion.

Explanation for outsourcing.

A future where cooking is handled by robots is such a sad one... Guess I should start lubing up my ass to introduce my cooking course up my ass.

I only know of 3 cooperatives locally, all have gone bust. (one milk producer, a recycler and a clothing manufacturer). Cooperatives are generally too inflexible to survive in uncertain economic times (one of the reasons you don't see more of them), I am sure there are some success stories too but I doubt they outnumber the failures, when you run at lower profit margins a small downturn can mean the entire business goes broke.

Of course they can go broke. But they generally do survive longer. Most hurdles are finding starting capital and trying to fend off sometimes agressive competition.

Throughout the years technology has gotten rid of many job. Its not necessarily a bad thing, this why we dont spend our lives working on farms and instead do other tasks.

I think 7.25 is fine for a fast food job. Any employee worth something will get a raise to stay or move onto another job. This is why a very tiny percentage of this country makes minimum wage.

Companies pay CEOs a lot of money for reasons I dont understand. But hey, its their money. I'm more bothered by tax money being spent on things I dont support or encourages people to do nothing with their life.

I'd like to see many low skill jobs treat their employees better but thats a different discussion.