The steady replacement of men by machines the advance of automation is already threatening to destroy thousands of jobs and wipe out entire plants, warned John F. Kennedy in 1960, a time when computers took up entire rooms and cost millions of dollars.
Sixty years later, when technology is less expensive and more capable, employing technology is economical for even more tasks. Kennedy talked about industrial robots performing operations at car manufacturing plants. Today, robots process your burger order (think mobile apps or those touch screen kiosks at McDonald s) and will cook the actual burger in the near future. These are basic realities and no amount of rhetoric from politicians will stop these changes.
s if you increase the minimum wage it will incentivize people to automate. neil:you are against obligate. increasing it to the decade. for working-class americans. charles:president trump s former labor secretary nominee andy partner saying higher mandated wages go the more employers turn to robots. looks like he might be right. this burger flipping robot and when the s rolling out self ordering kiosks at 1000 restaurants. gary says he was right. we have been talking a long time about for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. when you continue to foist onto business owners or costs without productivity gains they will look elsewhere. you mentioned 1000 stores, 15%,
machines to replace workers that don t deserve $15 an hour. in part, that is true. my position what is true? the sentiment or if you increase the minimum wage, twit incentivize people to automate. trish: it s already happening. andy puzder didn t slip over mandated wage hikes so people didn t flip out over here. making sure he didn t get the gig. was he right about automation pushing jobs out as wages go up? one chain is introducing this burger flipping robot behind the counter. john miller is here and will tell us why. welcome. good to have you. appropriate timing on jobs day to be talking about robot technology, replacing workers? this is something that andy repeatedly warned against. what is behind this? for us, it s as much about