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Wages for workers is about added value. If the cost of a worker is higher than the value they add, the price of the product must go up. If it cannot, then the company will go out of business, or figure out a way to eliminate the low productive worker.
If McDonalds is FORCED to pay $15/hr, it will eliminate all positions that do not add $15 in value. I did not work at McDonalds, but I read about them in "The Electronic Sweatshop". McDonalds has always been at the forefront of Industrial Engineering. Time motion studies, general efficiency, waste elimination. Everything to eek out a little more profit. The whole "super size" model is all about up sizing profit per transaction, not profit per material sold.
In the end, robots WILL be trained to do the work of men. The only ones who will make money will be those who generate intellectual property. And those that fix the robots.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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