Hal-9000 (01-11-2018)
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.
PorkChopSandwiches (01-11-2018)
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.
Last edited by Godfather; 01-12-2018 at 02:47 AM.
RBP (01-12-2018)
i'll let you know
Seems that they are putting their tax cut to good use... :
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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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....
How much do you get to keep? Isn't your tax rate like 50%?
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