TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! KANSAS CITY INSIDER WARNS: FAIR WAGE FIGHT EVOKES RISE OF THE MACHINES & KIOSK REPLACEMENTS!!!
Right we are blessed to feature a bit of analysis that every other media outlet in Kansas City is far too scared to consider.
To wit . . .
THANKS TO A KICK-ASS TKC BLOG COMMUNITY DENIZEN: HERE'S FIRST WORD OF THE RISE OF THE KIOSKS CONFRONTING KANSAS CITY FAIR WAGE FIGHTERS!!!
While TKC is no futurist, it's clear that it could soon be harder to enjoy the luxury of a value meal when questions about the whereabouts of Sarah Connor come with every order confirmation.
Tonight, here's one of the most brilliant perspectives published in Kansas City:
The Market Always Responds
The study of economics is really the study of (or prediction of) unintended consequences.
We've recently see photographs of picket holding, disenchanted workers complaining about toiling at jobs that pay minimum wage. Only a stone-hearted person would not be moved to sympathy for their plight.
What is seldom seen is the person that made equal or greater sacrifices in building up enough savings to open his business. The same person is never seen paying nearly 50% of any his income taken home and 35 % of his enterprises profits to a partner that's only job as of recently is to criticize him for not paying what they deem a "fair-wage".
And so there you have it; the disadvantaged forced to work at jobs that pay less then what they'd like and a business owner, risking his hard earned savings, his time, and his livelihood and all the while offering employment to an ever increasingly dissatisfied worker.
And, as these two groups toil at scrapping out a living, elitist economists, like Robert Reich, most of whom have never created a job or worked outside of academia or politics, pronounce that an increase in the minimum wage will not increase unemployment and that there will be no unintended consequences.
I beg to differ.
McDonald's, the vast majority of restaurants owned by individual entrepreneurs, is testing Reich's economic theory of what happens when you force individuals to follow a grand scheme based in theory when the world they must operate in is based in reality.
The math is straight forward enough. Replace one employee and save $32,000 annually.
Here are the numbers:
$15 per hour, times 40 hours a week, and 50 working weeks a year is 30,000 annually, before any healthcare benefits. Of course, we must not forget that for each $15 dollars paid, the employee will need to 1.45% in medicare and 6.20% in Social Security. That's another $1.15 in additional wages or about $2,300 annually for a grand total of 32,300 in savings, again, before any health care expense.
You also don't have to worry about sick employees, maternity leave, and a whole host of federal regulations that's stated goal is to help employees, but in fact harm them and only produce more state dependents.
As technology costs continue to drop, KC should see more and more restaurants fixing their minimum wage problem.
I will greatly miss getting my order completely screwed up by some of Kansas City Public School "scholars" barely able to speak correct English with unmerited self-esteem, and their seemingly permanent piss poor attitude of the perpetual victim, but I guess we all must make those sacrifices for the greater good.
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absolutely correct and already happening at Wal-mart. So much for their union organizing.
ReplyDeleteListen closely and you'll hear every other media outlet in Kansas City laughing their asses off right now.
ReplyDeleteThough I guess it us better than having a nigger serve your food. When I see a nigger "working" (that is, loafing) in a restaurant I turn around and go elsewhere.
The good news here is that when Hoodrattis Urbanis Feralis tries to hold up a Kiosk and starts shooting, they will only do damage to themselves.
ReplyDeletePlus, Kiosk's are much cleaner, they don't reek of kale shit, and they don't wear faux lumberjack shirts and mumble shit when you try to pay with cash.
They won't take up space on the Toy Train, commuting to and from work either......
This is really nothing new. Niggers have been shitting in our food for a long time. A friend of mine used to work for Tropicana Orange juice and he saw a nigger pissing into a huge vat of orange juice. Just think about it the Oscar winning movie starred a nigress sheeboon who made a shit pie. All the Media outlets were praising this movie and even La Sea Christian Broadcasting gave it a thumbs up.
ReplyDeleteWith Newscasters like Bill Oreily praising niggers who kill white people and covering up negro crimes it it is already at the point to WATCH OUT FOR NIGGERS WHEREVER YOU SEE THEM. THAT INCLUDES BEHIND THE COUNTER AT ANY RESTAURANT.
^^^^^^^^ and that is why I no longer eat out.
ReplyDeleteWhen government starts screwing with business, business develops and secretive demeanour and the next thing you know you have banks cranking out bad mortgages and crashing the economy. It would take little effort for many of the fast food operations to automate most of the process given the developement cost spread over several thousand units. A really great alternative is ghetto rats actually going to school to learn a trade.
ReplyDeletesuch a shame that kc is going down this road and killing business. that is all the $15 wage will do.
ReplyDeleteGoogle's facial recognition got into a little trouble today when it tagged some black folks as gorillas.
ReplyDeleteYou just can't make that kind of comedy up.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ priceless
ReplyDeleteI heard Gates BBQ is going to the kiosk model just as soon as they can find one with an amp and big fucking speaker
ReplyDeleteMAY I HELP YOU!!!!!!!
Think I'll get a Lear Jet .....
ReplyDeleteIt's garbage food anyway, the people who eat it are just as disgusting as those who serve it. Welcome to thr American underclass.
ReplyDelete732 eat a bundle of dicks n fine china.
ReplyDeleteRealize that this is just the start of the new a American COMMUNISM.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but agree in part, I haven't had an order returned properly at McDonald's in more than 5 years.
ReplyDeleteIn late breaking news McDonalds announced today that it wold be installing pay toilets in all of it's locations. Minimum charge is $1.00 with toilet tissue sold by the running foot.
ReplyDelete7:32 got it right 7:55
ReplyDeleteFast Foods' sucky slimed burgers are mostly garbage.
The dregs of the bovines make up much of the 'beef' patties that are salt laden and fatty.
Chain restaurants have huge industrial processing operations all over the world. Safety and sanitary standards vary widely.
After seeing the film FOOD, INC. and other 'exposes' home cooked and very select chef owned dining for my family and smart friends.
Gardening and cooking is NOT hard. Tossing money at junk food in this world is TOO easy.
Yep folks! You heard it here first (courtesy of the Pay Me Institute) minimum wage laws cause automation! It has never happened before working people asked to be paid a fair wage that comes closer to keep up with raises in worker productivity! If you just quit asking for what you need, the bosses promises not to automate anything else! It's not like they've been automating labor for centuries, even before there was a minimum wage! Pay no attention the white men behind the curtain, serfs! The Show Me shills will only show you the show me "facts"!
ReplyDeleteClassy site, Tony.
ReplyDelete1st Amendment. LMFAO.
I welcome our new computer overlords. Maybe they won't forget my motherfunking fries!
ReplyDeleteNote to the worker bee.....$15? Seriously? You didn't think you could get one over on The Man did you? We replace you with a bot.....buh bye!
ReplyDelete841 I'd rather shit in a dumpster than sit on a McDonalds toilet which hasn't been cleaned in days by the fucktards who work there
ReplyDeleteI take Tony for granted.
ReplyDeleteEvery day, I get up and check the site, the comments and the dialogue.
This, in fact, diminishes Tony's genius. This post, is a slap in the face, for we readers, who, as is human nature, take this site for granted, as we take Tony for granted.
Read this post again.
Seeing both sides of the problem, Tony dances, as best he can, to an objective look at an issue, that the MSM politicizes and shoves down our collective, Marshall Applewhite throats.
Tony's take on this issue, is dead on the fuckin money.
Nice job Tony. In my opinion, you count and you count big time.
This is an excellent post!! I compliment the TKC contributor.
ReplyDeleteMakes perfect sense, and I believe a few places around the country are trial-testing these now before they're rolled out everywhere.
Also remember the machine which is capable of producing something like 100 hamburgers every minute or two, is close to full-scale operation as well.
A McDonald's location will be run by 2-3 people total. I think they can find 2-3 good people to staff each store.
Now, as for Wal-Mart, the technology already exists for consumers to go through check-out with a full basket of items, without individually scanning each item. Roll your cart through a chute which simultaneously scans every barcoded item in the cart, swipe your card, push it over to a self-service bagging station, and take your stuff home. Very quick. It's on the way.
Great post, thanks for posting T. This is the kind of thing i want to read in the paper but they would never publish something that actually took a critical look at what is happening to our city.
ReplyDelete10:33 the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) self checkpoint is at the KCK public libraries -- just got it a couple weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteI set my five books, stacked onto the specified surface and as quick as you can say "what the ....?"
all five were printed on a receipt in less than another second.
Honestly, I think the problem is the cost of Health CARE. We just aren't sick enough to be paying such a HUGE BITE out of our income for doctorbills.
ReplyDeleteCongress needs to quit protecting the drug and medical companies for those campaign contributions. You're screwing the pooch to stay elected! You will preside over the biggest Depression in American History if you don't just STOP IT.
Get that Republican Missouri House members, like Sam Graves and the others around here who vote for their party's big contributors!
He's fond of cheerleading for small business. There WONT BE any small business. People can't afford to work for today's wages. Small business can't afford to automate to shut out workers. So they'll go broke. More northland downtowns will board up. Walmart will own the whole damned country!
As a truck driver, I've been to the places where all this food is made. That's why I will not eat at McDonald or eat Campbell's soup. Or hienz ketchup. Not enough space here to tell you what I've seen
ReplyDeleteIf these people don't have jobs, who will buy your shitty imported Walmart products and live in the hovels of profiteering slumlords?
ReplyDeleteThen how will these robber barons be able to afford to pay all of you "middle class" (read: fucking peasant)morons who (it could just as easily be claimed) are not worth what you get.
The racism expressed in these comments is what's tearing America apart. I have to stop with this blog, as enjoyable as it once was. Comments need to be monitored. And I refuse to use kiosks and refuse to patronize anyplace that doesn't treat its employees well. We have to respect humanity, and treat people well. Just say no to racism and its ugly, destructive impact.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye Tony.
ReplyDeleteThis is a well stated essay on why "free market" capitalism has never and cannot work. Another unintended consequence?
This is a good example of the unintended consequences of government pandering to the endless lines of little groups with one demand or another.
ReplyDeleteSly talks about KCMO supporting start-ups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses, but the $15/hr minimum wage would hurt small margin businesses the most.
And he talks about the importance of reading and education, but then gives away millions in tax money that is supposed to support libraries and schools to Hyatt to build a grandiose hotel.
And, of course, they've already spent hundreds of thousands from the PIAC accounts specifically designed to fix streets in neighborhoods and spent it for planning for a streetcar expansion that was rejected by the voters.
You're not very very likely to accomplish much when you keep cutting yourself off at the knees.
Any job automated now would have been automated in the near future anyway. It's still a poor excuse to fuck people out of a fair pay. What's sad is that much of the opposition comes from middle class people. You apparently don't realize that the middle class funds this country. It slaves for the rich and pays for the poor. Everyone grabs from the pockets of the middle class. This is s way to offload the social cost of being poor back to the rich. They can pay their share once in a while.
ReplyDelete5:23am Buh Bye. BTW we logged your IP address. Sincerely, Tony
ReplyDeleteBe careful what you wish for entitlement crowd; you might get it.
ReplyDeleteThis blog doesn't keep logs of IP addresses. Really, who would care.
ReplyDeleteWe're not McDonald's after all.
President Obama decreed that he wants anyone making under $50K per year to get overtime. That will give fast food an excuse to cut down on management and that make automation look more cost effective. It is funny when the Libtards try to help people with their feel good legislation, the very people they are trying to help get screwed.
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