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by kjkjadksj 687 days ago
The point is, machines need to be built and optimized. That has a cost that even today is high enough where its still better to have a worker flipping burgers, even if we have the technology to automate this already. The cost of labor is just that low, and the cost of automation is just that high, and the amount of profit you get from burger flipping is only covering so much overhead.