On: McDonald's Says Goodbye Cashiers, Hello Kiosks

[starpilot]

We need basic income.

[adventured → starpilot]

We used to have tens of thousands of low paid telephone operators. As recently as 1984, AT&T still employed 40,000 of them.

We didn't need that profession either.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/04/us/once-a-friendly-fixtur...

[quxbar → adventured]

There's almost 4 million employees in the fast food industry in the US, so the problem is a few orders of magnitude bigger. Also, what happens when the pool of jobs for unskilled workers dries up?