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Over 10 years ago McDonalds ran an experiment where they used a VOIP connection to connect the drive-through speaker/microphone to a processor in India who would enter the information that appeared in the kitchen. I remember reading about it when the experiment was in process but I never heard the end results or if it was ever implemented beyond the pilot stage.
Higher taxes and labor costs have already moved almost all manufacturing jobs out of this country and fast food places were already experimenting with outsourcing and automating labor at 10-years ago minimum wage and automation technology.
Here's a video of robots working at amazon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWFjS3Ci7A
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” - Margaret Thatcher, before robots
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Originally posted by terracore
The problem with socialism...
Yeah right. Haven't you noticed? The USA, and the rest of the "civilized" world, is socialized! My god man, we have socialized education, we have socialized medicine, we have socialized roads and parks and trash removal, we even have a socialized military! Frick, with the amount of tax breaks, rebates, and welfare (which is subsidized labor for big business) we have socialized capitalism. All paid for by the collection and redistribution of money! The USA is socialistic. It makes me laugh when folks make silly statements about some version of our system leaning more towards socialism and that it's bad, can't vote for Bernie because he's a socialist, bad. Get over it already you are a socialist living in a socialistic society. Which to me is something to be proud of, not ashamed.
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The business model for modern U.S.A.:
socialize the costs, privatize the profits.
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Originally posted by BillyB
With 200 employees who is missing on this list?
https://portal.ehawaii.gov/residents/job...of-hawaii/
The list is of companies with that many full time employees.Most of Russell's are part time.
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"Most of Russell's are part time."
That cannot be.
Even at $15.00 an hour, let alone $ 10 a part time job will not provide a living wage, and at less than 20 hours they wouldn't even get health insurance.
No Bernie supporter would be that callous.
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That largest employers list even included a few schools and county offices which previous lists kept to largest private employers.
There are a few factors to notice about that list. No observatory makes it into the top 50 either, mainly because they are not private jobs.
The next thing to notice is there is no science and technology related employer. There was a list of the top 200 employers and there is no S.T.E.M. employer on the list.
There are over 11,000 jobs in federal, military, state and county jobs, not on the list, that makes government the single largest employer, through multiple agencies.
The final feature to notice about the list is the top 50 employer positions are all service industry jobs. People should keep those things in mind when they are fantasizing what Hawaii island should be like, oblivious to reality.
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
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Seems we lost our way here. This started as a discussion of Puna Makai Alternate Road, which Rudderman, Joy, and most of Puna support. Shipman and Iligan oppose it.
That's the issue, which has not really been discussed. I, for one, am glad someone is fighting for Puna's needs instead of parroting the company line for the biggest landowner - "It can't be done." Anyone else interested in this?
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I've said it before, but it bears repeating. Ilagan has aligned himself with local big money/big land interests and outside good old boy political "leadership" factions. (If those good old boys who never have done and never will do anything for Puna want Ruderman out of office, that's a clue that I should be voting for him.) Ilagan thinks it is acceptable to dodge questions, sometimes for years, by saying "I need to research that and get back to you." He smiles a lot and has signs plastered all over Puna, but that doesn't impress me. His tenure on the county council has not seen him pass any significant legislation that helps Puna. And now he wants to be senator? Ruderman may be far from ideal, but he is the better choice by far.
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someone is fighting for Puna's needs
Perhaps more accurately: someone is putting on a show about the fight for Puna's needs, because at an estimated $300M, actual construction of the PMAR is highly unlikely.
