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No, but I would regulate Amazon. Paying a living wage, to start with, and making them adhere to labor laws. They are running a sweatshop.

They may well be, I agree. I very seldom use them for anything. I avoid patronizing these sorts of firms.

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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson

See? It's not hard at all for me to answer a question. Why are you so scared and gutless when asked simple questions?

Only foolish questions are foolish to answer.

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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I asked you where you stood on Trump and his statements. No foolish questions. And everyone coming here sees how gutless you are. Too scared to say what you believe.

I am most unhappy with both presumptive candidates. It is sad for the nation.

Dumbing down has produced the anticipated result.

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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah, the old "I'm not taking a stand" except that you always defend Trump, or at least never really say anything bad about him, but you always attack Clinton.

Usual conservative tactic. You aren't even original.

Sorry, you can't cover up all the pro-Trump posts you've made. But you're too scared to answer simple questions about your views about him. Like "do you support his attack on the Judge?" and "Were his comments on the Judge racist?"

But you're too scared to answer them.

artificial employees and fake food

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbHi_jDF-I

They may not have Sparky McDroid at the window yet, but these are here.

I've seen them. They're rolling them out.



A human still needs to hand you your food - haven't automated the delivery yet - but you select your items & pay at the kiosk. No more cash register. (Some teenager is still making your milkshake and spitting in it first in the back, of course, some things don't change.)

But, it's a weird thing. My nearest Winn-Dixie had self-serve cashier/bagger-less checkout lanes, and removed them. I've seen that happen. Apparently, the store found people were having so much trouble working the technology that it was slowing the customers down to the point of complaining -- and they removed them.

Some places are finding automating doesn't always work.

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Oh, and you know what's really cute? When to make them seem more friendly, they make these ordering kiosks look just like gigantic iPhones.



Increasingly, of course, you'll be able to use ApplePay or AndroidPay to pay at these systems, as well.

I think the app is already in development where you'll order through the app on your phone before you get to the joint, and then just 'beam' your order, too.

Like Ritzer says, McDonaldization is all about hyper-efficiency -- can't serve 13 billion (esp. when there isn't that many folks on the planet) unless you get them in and out, quickly.

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-- Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
Malaclypse the Younger

One of the earlier steps, prior to robots, but still with the goal of increasing owner-profits by cutting costs somewhere else, was to outsource the drive-up windows to another country (typically India, since they can at least learn to speak English in ways that are every bit as good as any Brit).

I saw this happening in the early-90's where I lived (western San Fernando Valley). The New York Times has articles from the mid-ought's about this happening in other locations.


For about three weeks as a teenager (early 80's) I worked at one of those MickyD's (until I found a much better job) and it was really weird (to the point of being surreal) seeing one of the owners pull up in a Rolls Royce and jump into the kitchen scene doing his best to show us how to do our job.

The owners of MickyD's make a mother fucking fortune, and it's even bigger when you are the franchise-owner of several such stores.

Nah, food costs wouldnt be that much, I dont think but even if they were, add manager payroll to profit and you have quarter of a million

$400,000 for rent? No...

Rent might be $120,000 or even less depending on location, so profit is WAY more than stated unless you are on Market ST San Francisco then the gross is much higher which evens out the rent


Restaurants usually go 30% food, 40% overhead, 30% profit. something like that if done right

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Treason is now officially OK with the GOP; that is the end of the country, folks, plain and simple.

Yes, you are right. I am too scared. I admit it.

Do not expect anything else.

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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone here has always had low expectations of you, Trit.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/michigan-legislature-moving-to-limit-retirement-benefits-for-public-employees-in-lame-duck-session

Michigan legislature moving to limit retirement benefits for public employees in lame duck session



looks like they will be including police and firefighters this time.

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GOP hates working people, always have. But until those cops and firemen stop voting for cons, they will continue to be hurt.

We deserve to be destroyed, I am afraid, I mean we vote for it, why not?

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Treason is now officially OK with the GOP; that is the end of the country, folks, plain and simple.

es macht nichts. today i heard the shrew known as kellyanne conway say what about white workers. nah, racism played no role. hey, white workers? you have supported republicans for decades since the election of the great prevaricator. yet you haven't learned that the capitalist system does not exist to provide you with a job nor economic security.

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bird's theorem-"we the people" are stupid.

"No one is so foolish as to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons." - Herodotus

Wise and true words. The smart GOP people have stopped defending Trump along time ago, leaving Kellyanne Conway to be the verbal contortionist in chief. She's best at it.

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I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.

Given Ferguson et seq, it's police unions that proved the biggest problem with unions in general, because it is with them as it is with teacher unions: a protection racket for the incompetent and nefarious.

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I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.

bullshit comment

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Treason is now officially OK with the GOP; that is the end of the country, folks, plain and simple.

As a teacher, I don't agree with this comment on teacher's unions ... obviously.

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-- Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
Malaclypse the Younger

...because....?
You got nothin'. I've got Black Lives Matter.

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I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.

...because....?
Looks like you got nothin' too.

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I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.