Michael HarleyMay 12

I've often wondered why there aren't more mostly autonomous assembly lines for manufacturing things but I think it boils down to one thing: Cost.

It's cheaper to get a bunch of desperately poor people to build your iPhone than it is to invest in the research and buy the robots that could do it.

Then you have people like Musk saying that AI and robots are going to do all labor, while simultaneously saying entitlements are a huge drain on society. If you take away all the jobs with your robots so you can capture their salaries, and delete all the social safety nets and guardrails provided by government, what are people supposed to do exactly?

Show threadMichael Harley

There's a burger king near me that is new and does not have inside seating. I think there are probably opportunities to automate a lot of the internal workings of the place and you just need 1 or 2 people to make sure the Whopper making robot doesn't get gummed up, and the machines are all topped off with their ingredients.

I think little caesars pizza could also be highly automated.

But then what does the person displaced by the Whopper Maker 1000 supposed to do? Time to learn about robot repair I guess?

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Show threadIchinin   ✅🎯🙄May 12

@michaelharley They probably have a few repair guys or people who ship robots back to service/replacement already. Best thing to do at such a restaurant is to look for a new job.

If it can keep prices down at restaurants, i'm all for it.