[privacypoller]

McDonalds is a great example of this. Minimum wage is headed to $15/hr and they've replaced 80% of the front counter staff with self-order kiosks. Grocery stores can have one person running 4+ self-checkout counters at teh grocery store, and the "gig economy" is just companies skirting minimum wage and benefits via contractors. It's like my childhood paper route for 50 cents an hour all over again...

[hrktb]

> McDonalds is a great example of this. Minimum wage is headed to $15/hr and they've replaced 80% of the front counter staff with self-order kiosks

The jobs in line against kiosks were already gone, and won’t come back, whatever you do to minimum wage.

[shady-lady]

> they've replaced 80% of the front counter staff with self-order kiosks

> replaced 80% of the front counter staff

Have you any credible source for that or any source at all?

Snopes has more info on a similar statement: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-robot-cashiers/

> CLAIM

> McDonald's is planning to replace all the cashiers in their restaurants with robots by the end of 2020

>WHAT'S TRUE

>McDonald's announced plans to install self-order kiosks in eight or nine thousand stores in the next few years.

>WHAT'S FALSE

>McDonald's is not replacing cashiers with "robots," the chain is not eliminating all cashiers, self-serve kiosks are not a response to a proposed higher minimum wage.

[antaviana]

Soon robot manufactuters will be lobbying to increase Minimum Wage as to protect their robots from unfaithful competition by humans.