After all if we replace all human labor with machines, nobody will have a salary to buy the hamburgers no mater how cheap they are.

directly to the garbage grinder. No humans needed at all.

saving all that labor. The inevitable result is an ever increasing number of people vying for an ever decreasing number of jobs.

We're trying to move into the 21st century while dragging a 19th century mindset and an 18th century economic system behind us. We should be reducing the number of hours of work required to live well and better sharing the economic rewards that innovation and discovery yield.

- back in the 50's - would happen as machines took over the drudge work. We'd each work about 9 hours/week and improve our minds and health the rest of the time. And for some reason we just believed that the capitalists would pay the same wage as for a 40 hour week!

I mean, fuck it. It's not like I'm some sort of Luddite, but you have to draw the line somewhere. When I was a broke teenager and, especially when I was in college, there were times the only job I could get was at a fast food restaurant.

It's not a great job, but it's a job. In America right now, we need jobs.

If I can stigmatize Chik-Fil-A for pushing barbaric social ideas I sure as shit can stigmatize a robo-straunt.

PB

Machines handling raw meat sounds like a recipe for some nasty E coli for sure...

-app

Social pressure has it's uses.

PB

As long as it brings the prices down. I mean, that is the point, isn't it? (I'm not going to pay the same price for a burger when all the money goes to the owner and not the robots. )

This is 2012, dammit! We can do better.

Hell yeah, now I'm definitely on board with this burger-flipping automaton.

mooo

except in super high volume burger joints. I have a feeling the cost will be too high for most ordinary franchises. They'll either have to do a hard sell on payback period or hope the corporate honchos force them on the franchises.

I'd be a little sad to see the bottom of the barrel line cook jobs go, anyway. Oh, they're a lousy underpaid treadmill with no opportunity for advancement or employee input, but they do provide the entry into restaurant work for a hell of a lot of people.

Oh well, there's still Subway, maybe Taco Bell.

It's a blue sky, inc. thing. But...if you hurry, you can still invest. Just sell your stock in the water carburetor company, and you're golden.

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the hell is going to be able to afford buying a hamburger. Really looks like this country has lost generations of workers. I guess we humans are going to have to take care of our ownselfs and sell and make our own economy. Barter and trade.

That cooks the burger right before your very eyes.

Strictly from an investment point of view, disregarding society-economic considerations, I'd buy stock in this company NOW!

Next: PIZZA!

I don't remember if it was in the U.S., though. Maybe it was Japan.

...I won't be ingesting any robot hamburgers.

Sorta like my printer. And the MTA...

Your problems are almost certainly the crapware you are loading on it.

And when one of these things "screws up" it'll probably start by killing its repair crew and turning them into burgers.

I saw an episode of Star Trek when they tried this once. It didn't turn out well.

Besides, if not for burger joints, where will all the recovering junkies get jobs?

When the 3-D printer was discussed and it was brought up that it would cost jobs among Chinese manufacturers, a certain poster declared that those jobs in China were better off lost and that the Chinese people workers lifestyles would be improved with the loss of those slave-labor jobs...

How is this different?