https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-automation-restaurants-hiring-employment-productivity-job-market-outlook-2021-7
Full automation which would allow common people more leisure time has long been a dream of futurists and thinkers for centuries.
Only the corrupt structures of capitalism have warped that dream into a nightmare.
In a socialist society, this type of automation would indeed be a virtuous cycle.
Photo: August 2015
Getting paid six figures to write trash Chicago school diarrhea articles and copypaste google stock photos
the bourgeoisie is like "you can either keep working for starvation wages or I will implement something that'll be really cool when socialists eventually take over my business"
No, but as productive output of individual workers rise, so does their collective labor power. All automation does is raise productive output of workers while shifting the division of labor.
Also, you can't profit off a machine, machines don't create value, they only consume value. Full automation is unsustainable without a creation of new jobs that pay the same or more as the ones lost.
That being said, increased rates of profit due to automation are not due to the automation itself, but the increase in worker power they allow as well as a healthy dose of arbitrage because the markets take time to adopt the new methods.
Automation should be liberating not a threat. All these articles do is make capitalism look shittier.
Cites literally zero sources about how common this is. Assume it isn't and this is yet another business interest PR threat.
Of course, otherwise they wouldn't have used a picture from 2015
The economy is when there are no jobs and the less jobs there are the better the economy is.
Abandoning Keynesianism was one of the stupidest things capitalists could do to their precious economy. FDR saved capitalism for them and they just throw it away.
They had to, Keynesianism hit its limit in the 60s and 70s profitability crisis. Keynes said stagflation was impossible, it couldn't happen that you had economic stagnation and also prices going up. There is no overcoming the internal contradictions of capitalism, all you can do is push it outwards or a little bit ahead of time but sooner or later...
You know, those tactical pens that they sell to break a car window in an emergency are really good at shattering touch screens and can be easily concealed. It sure would suck if these automated fast food restaurants had to repeatedly shut down while they waited for someone to come and fix their broken "cashier".
Cheering on the fire burning your downstairs neighbors to death
as an economist, I am entirely convinced the concept of "eatsa", an SF based restaraunt, is applicable to the whole country
These are the same people that will tell you the Soviet gulag system was definitely unjustified.
Imagine believing the production of goods and services is a zero sum game where more efficient technology equals smaller demand for labour.
If that were the case every invention from computers and combine harvesters to the fucking wheel should have resulted in chronic unemployment. They didn't.
