Wednesday 9 April 2014

The Death of the Fast Food Worker

The rise of machines to replace the fast food worker. Is this a possibility? Is it feasible?

A company in San Francisco has developed a machine that replaces people in vending hamburgers and the technology is in its infancy.

Click on this article. It may sound like something like science fiction ... but it is already a reality.

Just another step in feeding decreasing employment, in a growing world population, faced with ever increasing unemployment.

Unemployment among the young is a dire growing problem throughout the world. This one source of employment for unskilled, young people will slowly be destroyed.

Government interference into the free market has increased the incentive to replace people with machines. Governments don't realise that ill-considered (may I call them dumb?) decisions often have unintended consequences. Their relentless grasp for power through handing out favours and entitlements has generated legislation that works directly against the people it was supposed to help.

There will be consequences to their short term decisions. This is one of them ... what will the others be?



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