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Thursday, 9 March 2017
quote [ Would your burger taste as delicious if it was made by a robot? You’ll soon be able to find out at CaliBurger restaurants in the US and worldwide. Cali Group partnered with Miso Robotics to develop Flippy the burger robot, which made its debut this week at the Pasadena, California CaliBurger. Miso and Cali Group … ]
Almost 5 million people in America work in Fast Food service.
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midden said @ 2:10pm GMT on 9th March
Fast food jobs are pretty much "busy work" for an economy that no longer needs most humans actively engaged in feeding, housing, transporting, manufacturing goods and entertaining the population.
Between the 4.5 million fast food workers, 3.5 million truck drivers and 0.75 million taxi and bus drivers, we can expect somewhere around 9,000,000 US jobs disappearing over the next decade or so. And do we really need 200,000 Starbucks baristas?
It seems inevitable that a basic, guaranteed income is in our future. We certainly have more than enough wealth to make it happen; a 2% tax on the top 10% earners could easily cover it without any noticeable effect on the lifestyles of those taxed.
midden said @ 2:19pm GMT on 9th March
Fast food jobs are pretty much "busy work" for an economy that no longer needs most humans actively engaged in feeding, housing, transporting, manufacturing goods and entertaining the population.
Between the 4.5 million fast food workers, 3.5 million truck drivers and 0.75 million taxi and bus drivers, we can expect somewhere around 9,000,000 US jobs disappearing over the next decade or so. And do we really need 200,000 Starbucks baristas?
It seems inevitable that a basic, guaranteed income is in our future. We certainly have more than enough wealth to make it happen; a 2% tax on the top 10% earners could easily cover it without any noticeable effect on the lifestyles of those taxed.
edit: the top 10% should also be based on local cost of living. In San Francisco, that would be $239k or more, while in Phoenix, it would be $150k.
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midden said @ 2:10pm GMT on 9th March [Score:2 Underrated]
Fast food jobs are pretty much "busy work" for an economy that no longer needs most humans actively engaged in feeding, housing, transporting, manufacturing goods and entertaining the population.
Between the 4.5 million fast food workers, 3.5 million truck drivers and 0.75 million taxi and bus drivers, we can expect somewhere around 9,000,000 US jobs disappearing over the next decade or so. And do we really need 200,000 Starbucks baristas?
It seems inevitable that a basic, guaranteed income is in our future. We certainly have more than enough wealth to make it happen; a 2% tax on the top 10% earners could easily cover it without any noticeable effect on the lifestyles of those taxed.
edit: the top 10% should also be based on local cost of living. In San Francisco, that would be $239k or more, while in Phoenix, it would be $150k.
