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To: bentway who wrote (739415)	9/14/2013 1:43:24 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574471

hey moron have you seen the automatic check out in stores ?? Mc donalds will do the same. My local grocery store used to have 5-7 checkers on a sat or sun now there's two

To: bentway who wrote (739415)	9/14/2013 2:41:28 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Respond to of 1574471

>> I have yet to see any robot McDonald's, Dave. You have, but you don't know it. Which says something about the "importance" of human workers at McDonalds. It is commonplace in new McDs today, for example, to have a drink robot controlled by the POS system to fill drinks (the benefits for this are there with or without high labor rates -- since humans consistently put the wrong amount of ice in the drink, which costs the franchise money or pisses off customers, both costly human errors.) In Great Britain, China and Japan robots actually doing the cooking & food prep are becoming typical. In Great Britain, order takers are being replaced by touch-screens, and that is coming to the US very shortly, which will cut 4-6 full time employees from a typical McDs. There basically isn't much happening in a McDs today that can't be done faster, cheaper and better by robotics. The only real hold up is getting people to accept it, which will happen. Demands for higher wages make the tradeoff in customer dissatisfaction versus lower cost of robotics much more acceptable to management. >> I'm sure we'll have software accountants first. I predict all rote brain jobs will be replaced by software before manual jobs. It's already happening. Remember tax preparers? I just did a will with software - it used to take a lawyer! We do have software accountants. Ever heard of Quickbooks? The meat-and-potatoes of small accounting firms has essentially been eliminated, which is one reason I sold my CPA practice(s) when I did; the writing was on the wall. While return preparation is now software-driven (a lot of which is now outsourced to India), analytical tax services require actual knowledge of the tax code, so it will persist. The days of manual labor are numbered, PARTICULARLY in fast food joints.