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Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2019 21:10:29 UTC Sean Tilley Lmao @ my friend who's boasting about the robotic burger flippers that are coming for all the fast food laborers who want $15 an hour.
You do realize those machines often require more people to service, and that they cost more than several people's yearly income, right? And that every robotic food service machine often has severe limitations in what it can do?-
kaikatsu (kaikatsu@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2019 21:11:04 UTC kaikatsu @sean I'd get a job maintaining burger flipping robots. Sean Tilley likes this. -
Edgelord von Hresvelg (animeirl@social.homunyan.com@social.homunyan.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2019 21:11:36 UTC Edgelord von Hresvelg @sean good, more jobs!
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Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2019 21:16:42 UTC Sean Tilley Also, those robots are too inflexible to do more than one job! A human burger flipper can reconfigure the grill for different types of food based on demand! They can also change roles and start making sandwiches during busy peak hours!
The sunk cost of developing, deploying, and maintaining this technology outweighs the cost of paying your humans a little more money. And god forbid that there be accidents along the way that you have to develop frequent updates for!
What, you thought paying a robotics development team, software engineers, and industrial manufacturers was going to make this cheaper somehow? Not unless the market hits a critical mass with a service worker robot that can do dozens of things and also be flexible in its role parameters, which is billions of dollars in technical and business developments.
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