Worries “that many delivery jobs would disappear” are cited among the reasons San Francisco Supervisor Norman Yee is sponsoring a ban on delivery robots in the city, prompting this response:
San Fran economics, in 3 steps!
Step 1: Pass $15 minimum wage.
Step 2: Robots take delivery jobs.
Step 3: Ban robots to save delivery jobs. https://t.co/Uj21cnvKuQ— Michael Saltsman (@Mike_Saltsman) May 31, 2017
Commenters have several suggestions for Steps 4 and beyond, including (@railboss): “Complain there aren’t any decent restaurants anymore with reasonably priced food or that deliver.”
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The fallacy of this is this “robots” were being developed long before the $15 minimum wage. Employers are using the MW as an excuse to decrease job cost.
Step 4: ban companies from laying off minimum wage employees
Step 5: set minimum number of new hires per month depending on the gross income of the company owners + total company revenue (not profit).
“Employers are using the MW as an excuse to decrease job cost.”
They shouldn’t need an excuse…
Yeah, Economics be hard.
I can’t wait for robots to prepare food in fast-food restaurants. What a boon for the company and the customers!