Burger-flipping robot replaces humans on first day at work

Well this makes me both sad and happy. Happy because a bunch of people who spat in the face of opportunity are going to be receiving their comeuppance. Sad because this will essentially eliminate a good portion of entry level jobs designed to introduce new workers into the work force.

I might have hated working my starter jobs, but they provided me with valuable lessons. How to work your personal life around a work schedule. How to work hard. How to deal with being bossed around. How to eventually be in charge of others. Among other important life lessons.

Too many people get complacent in their position instead of chasing opportunity which is what led to this Fight for 15 nonsense.

The only thing I can hope for is that this results in a comeback of apprenticeships where entry level workers can learn valuable trade work instead.

Go ahead with the $15 /hr minimum wage there is away to by pass the minimum wage Burger Flippers...

This whole minimum wage increase talk is ridiculous. If the minimum increases nothing else will so you'll have people with no skills making as much as people who have put in time and effort to get the skills and licensure. Increasing the minimum wage to $15 is even more ridiculous. There are cops and Paramedics across the country who don't make that much.

In my full-time capacity with the Guard I'm a supply technician. I'm responsible for ordering and maintaining a stock of millions of dollars worth of aircraft parts and I deal with people in the supply chain from top to bottom to get said parts and I only make about $16/hr. If you add in drill and additional flight training periods, I only bring in around $30k a year after taxes and everything else. Why should someone that puts together a cheeseburger and throws it in a microwave make more than I do or more than people who save or protect lives?

If minimum wage was increased to $15/hr would everyone else's wage increase too? No. Mike the microwaver would be making the same as me. You'd just be creating a larger lower class because with that wage increase you also have a cost increase. And that's IF the suppliers of products didn't go out of business trying to pay their people first.