Business responds to $15 minimum wage demands

[Mikeoxenormous]

Yes! And those robots are going to buy a lot more stuff from them, too!

Screw paying people anything! Business can't survive if it has to pay labor! ...

Of course, I my sons have gone into the military so they will be working on the most advanced computers and robots the military can provide. When they get out they will be much farther ahead than some college puke you makes coffee at a Starbucks.. And guess who will be fixing those robots?

Thank God for Liberals. Because of them, you can measure what "STUPID" is.

U.S. Military Working To Deploy Robot Ground Vehicles For Urban Combat By 2020

Too bad your stupid kids will spend most of their time laid off, since none of these businesses will have enough customers to justify buying robots in the first place when your big dreams come true. Your kids will either be unemployed like everybody else or just parasites with do nothing government jobs. I'm sure your kids will enjoy killing all those 'stupid people', and then finally being exterminated themselves when they're finished with their govt. job. And, since your kids will have lots of competition, it's easy enough to get away with paying them nothing as well, since they're just as expendable as anybody else, despite your delusional self-esteem fantasies.

Someone will need to fix the robots... Unlike you, you will be a victim of liberalism and DEMAND your welfare check.

Sorry dummy, but it doesn't take many people to fix robots, and your dumbass kids will be just a s expendable as any other idiot who wants more money than some other fool will do the job for. As for myself, I'll do just fine, I helped build and develop a lot of the laser hardware and optical systems that guide these things and make them possible, so I'm far better qualified than your kids are, and with years of experience to boot. If I ever have to go back to work I'll be firing your kids and replacing them with Chinese and Indians with green cards. Your kids are already behind the curve, along with hundreds of thousands of other idiots who believe what corporations run around lying about re 'labor shortages' and other hoaxes.

Wow, seems that you have low esteem for those who serve your country...

 

[martybegan]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

if you demand more pay for work than the value of your work added to the final product, and a machine becomes more effective, then automation isn't the cause, it's the end result.

 

[Defiant1]

Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots
Well Libs, business will always outsmart politicians, the government policy makers and you freeloaders who want $$$ for doing nothing.
MILPITAS (KPIX 5) – Artificial intelligence will soon be put to work at Walmart stores around the country. And it could be a game-changer for retail.

The company is launching a small army of autonomous scanning robots.

The robots are 6 feet tall, equipped with an array of lights, cameras, and radar sensors.

It then goes up and down each aisle on its own, at 2 to 3 mph, scanning the shelves for empty spots, and also checking the price tags.

Because the robot uses LIDAR and other video cameras, what the robot actually sees is very similar to what a self-driving car sees.

One minute they’re giving raises because of the tax break (obviously a political and pr move) next they are crying about wages?

Shame on corporations for wanting to make their own decisions or how they spend their own money.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Yes! And those robots are going to buy a lot more stuff from them, too!

Screw paying people anything! Business can't survive if it has to pay labor! ...

/-----/ Want to fix this overnight? Repeal all minimum wages and let the free market determine wages.

 

[danielpalos]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

if you demand more pay for work than the value of your work added to the final product, and a machine becomes more effective, then automation isn't the cause, it's the end result.

the laws of supply and demand work better, at fifteen dollars an hour.

U.S. job openings hit record high, nearly 6.2 million

 

[martybegan]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

if you demand more pay for work than the value of your work added to the final product, and a machine becomes more effective, then automation isn't the cause, it's the end result.

the laws of supply and demand work better, at fifteen dollars an hour.

U.S. job openings hit record high, nearly 6.2 million

if a person adds value at $12 an hour to flipping burgers but gets paid $15 an hour, how is that better?

 

[danielpalos]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

if you demand more pay for work than the value of your work added to the final product, and a machine becomes more effective, then automation isn't the cause, it's the end result.

the laws of supply and demand work better, at fifteen dollars an hour.

U.S. job openings hit record high, nearly 6.2 million

if a person adds value at $12 an hour to flipping burgers but gets paid $15 an hour, how is that better?

fiat, baby. The difference in the cost of social services.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Yes! And those robots are going to buy a lot more stuff from them, too!

Screw paying people anything! Business can't survive if it has to pay labor! ...

Of course, I my sons have gone into the military so they will be working on the most advanced computers and robots the military can provide. When they get out they will be much farther ahead than some college puke you makes coffee at a Starbucks.. And guess who will be fixing those robots?

Thank God for Liberals. Because of them, you can measure what "STUPID" is.

U.S. Military Working To Deploy Robot Ground Vehicles For Urban Combat By 2020

Too bad your stupid kids will spend most of their time laid off, since none of these businesses will have enough customers to justify buying robots in the first place when your big dreams come true. Your kids will either be unemployed like everybody else or just parasites with do nothing government jobs. I'm sure your kids will enjoy killing all those 'stupid people', and then finally being exterminated themselves when they're finished with their govt. job. And, since your kids will have lots of competition, it's easy enough to get away with paying them nothing as well, since they're just as expendable as anybody else, despite your delusional self-esteem fantasies.

Someone will need to fix the robots... Unlike you, you will be a victim of liberalism and DEMAND your welfare check.

Sorry dummy, but it doesn't take many people to fix robots, and your dumbass kids will be just a s expendable as any other idiot who wants more money than some other fool will do the job for. As for myself, I'll do just fine, I helped build and develop a lot of the laser hardware and optical systems that guide these things and make them possible, so I'm far better qualified than your kids are, and with years of experience to boot. If I ever have to go back to work I'll be firing your kids and replacing them with Chinese and Indians with green cards. Your kids are already behind the curve, along with hundreds of thousands of other idiots who believe what corporations run around lying about re 'labor shortages' and other hoaxes.

/----/ BUT BUT BUT the millennials are well qualified to play xbox.

 

[martybegan]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

if you demand more pay for work than the value of your work added to the final product, and a machine becomes more effective, then automation isn't the cause, it's the end result.

the laws of supply and demand work better, at fifteen dollars an hour.

U.S. job openings hit record high, nearly 6.2 million

if a person adds value at $12 an hour to flipping burgers but gets paid $15 an hour, how is that better?

fiat, baby. The difference in the cost of social services.

Or wishful thinking, which is probably what you are applying.

 

[Toro]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

Yes it does.

If the cost of labor is too high relative to productive output, labor will be replaced by automation.

It will accelerate when politicians peg the price of labor above its clearing price, as is happening at Walmart.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

Yes it does.

If the cost of labor is too high relative to productive output, labor will be replaced by automation.

It will accelerate when politicians peg the price of labor above its clearing price, as is happening at Walmart.

And who will be maintaining those machines?

 

[Picaro]

Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots
Well Libs, business will always outsmart politicians, the government policy makers and you freeloaders who want $$$ for doing nothing.
MILPITAS (KPIX 5) – Artificial intelligence will soon be put to work at Walmart stores around the country. And it could be a game-changer for retail.

The company is launching a small army of autonomous scanning robots.

The robots are 6 feet tall, equipped with an array of lights, cameras, and radar sensors.

It then goes up and down each aisle on its own, at 2 to 3 mph, scanning the shelves for empty spots, and also checking the price tags.

Because the robot uses LIDAR and other video cameras, what the robot actually sees is very similar to what a self-driving car sees.

Good for them. Jobs paying less than fourteen dollars an hour are simply being subsidized for private bottom lines not public bottom lines.

We might as well provide equal protection of the law for unemployment compensation purposes in our at-will employment States, at fourteen dollars an hour.

$14 an hour is about $3 less than minimum wage adjusted for real inflation already. It's a bigger race to the bottom for any kind of skilled labor, period, and that is especially true in any kind of technology these days. Once you screw over the blue collar and lower classes, guess which demographic is next in line for the same treatment?

 

[Picaro]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

Yes it does.

If the cost of labor is too high relative to productive output, labor will be replaced by automation.

It will accelerate when politicians peg the price of labor above its clearing price, as is happening at Walmart.

Wages are always ' way too high' for businesses, always have been, always will be. If their labor costs were zero they would whine about how they should be paid for hiring anybody. Businessmen whined about having to feed slaves, after all.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots
Well Libs, business will always outsmart politicians, the government policy makers and you freeloaders who want $$$ for doing nothing.
MILPITAS (KPIX 5) – Artificial intelligence will soon be put to work at Walmart stores around the country. And it could be a game-changer for retail.

The company is launching a small army of autonomous scanning robots.

The robots are 6 feet tall, equipped with an array of lights, cameras, and radar sensors.

It then goes up and down each aisle on its own, at 2 to 3 mph, scanning the shelves for empty spots, and also checking the price tags.

Because the robot uses LIDAR and other video cameras, what the robot actually sees is very similar to what a self-driving car sees.

Good for them. Jobs paying less than fourteen dollars an hour are simply being subsidized for private bottom lines not public bottom lines.

We might as well provide equal protection of the law for unemployment compensation purposes in our at-will employment States, at fourteen dollars an hour.

$14 an hour is about $3 less than minimum wage adjusted for real inflation already. It's a bigger race to the bottom for any kind of skilled labor, period, and that is especially true in any kind of technology these days. Once you screw over the blue collar and lower classes, guess which demographic is next in line for the same treatment?

Back in 1976 minimum wage was $2.10 an hour. A burger, fry and small drink cost a total of 95 cents. When minimum wage got up to $10 an hour that same meal was over $3.00. Why is it that when wages go up, inflation starts to follow?

A loaf of bread 10 cents in 1976, today it is $1.05
16 ounce bottle of soda, 10 cents, today a 12 ounce can $1.25
A trans am Firebird, $6,000, today if they made them $50,000.

Pay a person what they are worth, and soon, those people would be TRYING to improve their working conditions(Free agency). Those that rely on the government to take care of them(raising minimum wages) will never get better, but stay stupid and vote for the very people that keep them stupid. Democrats...

 

[Picaro]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

Yes it does.

If the cost of labor is too high relative to productive output, labor will be replaced by automation.

It will accelerate when politicians peg the price of labor above its clearing price, as is happening at Walmart.

And who will be maintaining those machines?

Far, far fewer people than clueless dupes like yourself think will be. And they won't be paid squat, either.

 

[danielpalos]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

if you demand more pay for work than the value of your work added to the final product, and a machine becomes more effective, then automation isn't the cause, it's the end result.

the laws of supply and demand work better, at fifteen dollars an hour.

U.S. job openings hit record high, nearly 6.2 million

if a person adds value at $12 an hour to flipping burgers but gets paid $15 an hour, how is that better?

fiat, baby. The difference in the cost of social services.

Or wishful thinking, which is probably what you are applying.

Why do you say that? Social services cost around fourteen dollars an hour, anyway.

If you want Labor, fifteen dollars an should be the minimum wage.

 

[Picaro]

Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots
Well Libs, business will always outsmart politicians, the government policy makers and you freeloaders who want $$$ for doing nothing.
MILPITAS (KPIX 5) – Artificial intelligence will soon be put to work at Walmart stores around the country. And it could be a game-changer for retail.

The company is launching a small army of autonomous scanning robots.

The robots are 6 feet tall, equipped with an array of lights, cameras, and radar sensors.

It then goes up and down each aisle on its own, at 2 to 3 mph, scanning the shelves for empty spots, and also checking the price tags.

Because the robot uses LIDAR and other video cameras, what the robot actually sees is very similar to what a self-driving car sees.

Good for them. Jobs paying less than fourteen dollars an hour are simply being subsidized for private bottom lines not public bottom lines.

We might as well provide equal protection of the law for unemployment compensation purposes in our at-will employment States, at fourteen dollars an hour.

$14 an hour is about $3 less than minimum wage adjusted for real inflation already. It's a bigger race to the bottom for any kind of skilled labor, period, and that is especially true in any kind of technology these days. Once you screw over the blue collar and lower classes, guess which demographic is next in line for the same treatment?

Back in 1976 minimum wage was $2.10 an hour. A burger, fry and small drink cost a total of 95 cents. When minimum wage got up to $10 an hour that same meal was over $3.00. Why is it that when wages go up, inflation starts to follow?

A loaf of bread 10 cents in 1976, today it is $1.05
16 ounce bottle of soda, 10 cents, today a 12 ounce can $1.25
A trans am Firebird, $6,000, today if they made them $50,000.

Pay a person what they are worth, and soon, those people would be TRYING to improve their working conditions(Free agency). Those that rely on the government to take care of them(raising minimum wages) will never get better, but stay stupid and vote for the very people that keep them stupid. Democrats...

They will never paid more than what an employer can get away with paying them, period. You just have some ideological rubbish to peddle, and it doesn't reflect reality; you're delusional. And what's more, businesses never pass on cost savings if they don't have to, never have never will. Your little homilies and fantasies are cute, though.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Automation has taken jobs for a while, and will only take more in the future. It has nothing to do with people demanding a living wage for their work.

Yes it does.

If the cost of labor is too high relative to productive output, labor will be replaced by automation.

It will accelerate when politicians peg the price of labor above its clearing price, as is happening at Walmart.

Wages are always ' way too high' for businesses, always have been, always will be. If their labor costs were zero they would whine about how they should be paid for hiring anybody. Businessmen whined about having to feed slaves, after all.

Businessmen whined about having to feed slaves,

Oh you mean the Southern White Democrats, and now people like Jeff Bezos(Amazon) and Mark Fuckerburg(Facebook)..

 

[TomParks]

Just wait till the Walmart trash rams their buggies into the robots....haha

Kids will be kids of course

 

[danielpalos]

Walmart Launches Small Army Of Autonomous Scanning Robots
Well Libs, business will always outsmart politicians, the government policy makers and you freeloaders who want $$$ for doing nothing.
MILPITAS (KPIX 5) – Artificial intelligence will soon be put to work at Walmart stores around the country. And it could be a game-changer for retail.

The company is launching a small army of autonomous scanning robots.

The robots are 6 feet tall, equipped with an array of lights, cameras, and radar sensors.

It then goes up and down each aisle on its own, at 2 to 3 mph, scanning the shelves for empty spots, and also checking the price tags.

Because the robot uses LIDAR and other video cameras, what the robot actually sees is very similar to what a self-driving car sees.

Good for them. Jobs paying less than fourteen dollars an hour are simply being subsidized for private bottom lines not public bottom lines.

We might as well provide equal protection of the law for unemployment compensation purposes in our at-will employment States, at fourteen dollars an hour.

$14 an hour is about $3 less than minimum wage adjusted for real inflation already. It's a bigger race to the bottom for any kind of skilled labor, period, and that is especially true in any kind of technology these days. Once you screw over the blue collar and lower classes, guess which demographic is next in line for the same treatment?

Why do you believe that? A fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage puts upward pressure on wages.