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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Food CEO invests in machines because screw the employees [View all]ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)I am in the correct place.
1) Cr**py hamburger, maybe I should have mentioned a tofu burger from Whole Foods.
2) Your post #9 acknowledges the problem but in typical feel good rhetoric, requires an ever increasing amount of government control to work. It's amazing to me that people who should support freedoms in all things actual want to increase control which I guess is OK but what happens when Trump or one of his clones is elected? I don't think you're going to want government control then.
3) Nice try saying employee costs are a small percentage (please define and cite this as I know you can't unless you are relying on the bogus study I think you are) but, I know this is hard to understand in a world that requires colleges to have safe spaces, but a business exists to produce a profit, no other. A business will cut costs in every way possible to maximize profits, and wages are a way costs can be controlled whether it is via Ipads to replace waiters or robots to replace workers.
4) If we extend this thinking, then everyone should make the same from burger flipper to Neurosurgeon. You may think this would form a utopia but reality is everyone would ask themselves, why should I bust my rump when we all make the same? Wonderful future that would form unless the goal is to go back to living in caves.