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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    I think the fast food world is just the start of a larger change over.
    I cant see this as good for humans with the sheer numbers of population we need to employ and feed. The only people I see benefiting are the 1%.. They are going to increase and horde profits while the people starve in the streets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    I cant see this as good for humans with the sheer numbers of population we need to employ and feed. The only people I see benefiting are the 1%.. They are going to increase and horde profits while the people starve in the streets.
    Yeah I may be simplifying but it's a simple equation. Will the robot's cost outweigh human drawbacks like productivity levels, missing time, mistakes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Yeah I may be simplifying but it's a simple equation. Will the robot's cost outweigh human drawbacks like productivity levels, missing time, mistakes, world hunger?
    Added one..

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    I'm tellin ya man....I keep banging the drum about my fear of AI. There will be a moment when technology leaps (think of PC processors in the last decade) and mankind will figure a way to integrate machines into more aspects of our lives than we can imagine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post


    I'm tellin ya man....I keep banging the drum about my fear of AI. There will be a moment when technology leaps (think of PC processors in the last decade) and mankind will figure a way to integrate machines into more aspects of our lives than we can imagine.
    Black mirror

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    I cant see this as good for humans with the sheer numbers of population we need to employ and feed. The only people I see benefiting are the 1%.. They are going to increase and horde profits while the people starve in the streets.
    Settle down there Barack....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Settle down there Barack....
    Go eat your mechanical hamburger..

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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    At the brewery, when you stopping by?
    i'll be in san diego towards the end of april, is that going to be close?

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    I'll wade into this thread, admittedly too late. I really do wonder if minimum wage has much to do with this... how much do these machines cost? $25,000? $50,000? Does it matter? Compared to the 1-2 the employee it replaces, I'm not sure that with this technology now being where it is that even $5 as the minimum wage would 'protected' front line unskilled CSR jobs for much longer. It just makes fiscal sense to install them, and for public companies not much else matters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by deebakes View Post
    i'll be in san diego towards the end of april, is that going to be close?
    Yeah probably under an hour drive






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    i'll let you know

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    Seems that they are putting their tax cut to good use... :

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    They were planning to do this before any tax cut was ever announced. It's a response to states raising minimum wage to $15/hr.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    They were planning to do this before any tax cut was ever announced. It's a response to states raising minimum wage to $15/hr.

    Maybe they could use their tax cuts to keep people employed...



    Australia = $694.90 pw or $18.29 /hour - minimum wage.

    One todays exchange that is USD $549.42 or $14.46 /hour.....


    On figures we look better until an exchange rate comes into play and then it's a bummer....

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    How much do you get to keep? Isn't your tax rate like 50%?


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