Neanderpundit

A lot of fast food places already use some measure of automation. Most deep fryers are automated, timers prevent you from getting a raw burger, and the amount of machinery required to go from partial to full auto is very minimal.

Some things won’t be automated but people will ignore them. A burger that consists of a patty, a bun, and condiments that can be dispensed out of huge containers can be made by a machine, and it will always be perfectly made. Lettuce? Tomato? Pickle? Maybe not likely. But relish, salsa, sure. So someplace soon, and I expect to see it at the machine too show this September, you will be able to walkup to a machine, scan your credit card, and it will deliver a perfectly cooked burger with the condiments of your choice. Another machine for fries- that machine already exists and the fries are pretty good.

Hamburger vending machines will be around soon. The burgers will be consistent and dependable, and most importantly, the guy selling it to you will not have to pay someone to cook the burger and someone else to put condiments on it, and someone else to make change and hand it to you. Some Jack in the Box restaurants have already put the automated order/payment system in, and I expect to see a lot more of the same.

When the minimum wage is too high, people will just eliminate those jobs, and this is one way to do so.

and adapt to the new stupid being imposed on it, there are some things going on that I see, that are just ugly.

Companies who sell industrial equipment are being squeezed. Manufacturers know they have them over a barrel, so they are wringing every discount they can out of everything, and distributorships are selling at such low profit margins that eventually industrial showrooms will be a thing of the past, and million dollar machines will be sold out of car trunks like plastic garbage bags. And those manufacturers will have to work harder and harder to eke out a profit.

What this means for you and I is that the products we buy- from cars to asswipe- will get worse and worse, the quality disappearing to shave off a little profit. Quality products will come from Japan, Germany, and, believe it or not, China. “Made in America” will make people giggle and walk on by like they once did when you saw “Made in Japan”. (For those of us old enough to remember crappy made in Japan products). The decreasing number of high quality goods made in America will disappear one by one as the fedgov regulates and taxes them out of existence. This is not a prediction of the state of things to come, but an observation of the current situation.

I cannot imagine anything I want to see less than bloody revolution. I know people who live, or have lived, in a more or less permanent state of warfare, and I do not want that here. We have a little bit of time left to start turning this ship around, and only by constant and ongoing individual political activism do we have even the slightest chance. The barbarians are not at the gate, they are in the house next door, in the adjoining bedroom, in bed next to you. Do something about this while you still can without firing a shot, you haven’t got much time left.

Fuck with me today, I had Pad Thai last night. I dare you to piss me off. I will fart in a meeting and you will all beg to die.