Mike Rowe responds...

[sir pball]

3. You've never worked at wal-mart..

I was there for a spell when I was living in Maine (sadly it paid better than the kitchens in the area); over a year and a half I watched them roughly triple the number of self-serve registers while cutting cashiers, and continually improve the inventory-tracking logistics which let them drop the hours of the "stockmen".

Honestly, their technology is quite impressive in a vacuum, but believe me when I say it *is* only a matter of time until all those trivial jobs are automated...at this point it's just a cost issue, there are already almost zero technological barriers to completely robotic shelf-stocking, store cleaning and cashiering.