The new burger chef makes $3 an hour and never goes home. (It’s a robot) 📦

7    28 Feb 2020 16:42 by u/pepe99

G'head, raise the minimum wage to $15. Heck, why not $20? *As a result, Miso can offer Flippys to fast-food restaurant owners for an estimated $2,000 per month on a subscription basis, breaking down to about $3 per hour. (The actual cost will depend on customers’ specific needs). A human doing the same job costs $4,000 to $10,000 or more a month, depending on a restaurant’s hours and the local minimum wage. And robots never call in sick.* And that $2,000/month is tax-deductible as an operating lease expense.

7 comments

4 u/Zenna 28 Feb 2020 16:47
This has been in the cards for a long time. Minimum wage bumps are just adding extra incentive to improve the solutions. The more repeatable and brainless your job, the faster you'll be replaced by a bot.
4 u/pepe99 [OP] 28 Feb 2020 16:48
Sure thing... self-checkout stands at Walmart are bots
4 u/Zenna 28 Feb 2020 16:58
Half yes and half no. They automated the greeting and payment processing, but the scanning and bagging is done by the customer instead of the cashier. That's offloading of labor, free of charge. Pretty clever, actually.
2 u/Broncos89 28 Feb 2020 19:02
There's one, two, or maybe three humans doing checkout at Walmarts these days. Almost everyone uses self-checkout.
3 u/Zenna 28 Feb 2020 19:52
I'm aware. My point above was that they didn't really automate the checkout. That would involve augmenting the system so that it could scan all the items and bag them without a cashier. Instead, they've traded the cashier's paid labor for the customer's unpaid labor.
1 u/Broncos89 28 Feb 2020 19:58
They've reduced the number of people it takes to bag groceries from 2 to 1. Before, I still had to load groceries onto the belt which I guess you could call "labor" in that case. It's literally the same amount of work.
0 u/_Account_7b 29 Feb 2020 05:58
Man... so many narcissists and predatory personalities call me a bot because they don't like that I realize practically immediate their scam behaviors, but anyway, since I am suspected as a bot, if I could collect my $3/hour, I would very much appreciate it, otherwise as of yet, I have not received any compensation for anything that I've done in a long time, haha. Maybe I might need to offer myself with a subscription price model.