The list goes on

The incentive to not automate away low skill jobs is the fact that the people who work at mcdonalds are the people who work low skill jobs

papa johns is a fairly good example. that corp had a lot of good benefits and treated employees well and did a lot of donations etc when it was privately owned

became shit when it went publicly owned

But sure machines increase the productivity of workers. Dirty little secret America has some of the most productive industrial labor on the planet. It is not complicated as to why. A man with a nail gun can do the work of 10 men with hammers.

That made no sense

I don't either, I'm basically allowing myself to be phased out of the conversation. I just need it made clear that an increase in net profit is the first priority of corporations. for good or ill, that's why we let them exist

mine? @Tiberius

The incentive to not automate jobs is because people work there?

Calman

Like all those people who worked on assembly lines?

honestly the only jobs with resistance from AI replacement would be ones that have something that AI isn't currently capable of doing. Things like creativity based skills

if nature can do it then it can be replicated

Pshaw. Build a robaot that can fix your sink.....

so its inevitable that AI would become very close to humans in every aspect

But not everyome can be successfully creatively skilled

yes, if the corporations erase low skill labor jobs and replace them with machines, low skill labors will not acquire a wage with which they can spend on whatever, and, in many aspects of the economy, low skill labor's spending contribute to the profitablility of a corporation

Basic supply/demand

Rather build a robot that can fix your sink that costs less than a plumber. The 'creatives' will be replaced first.

but then by that logic corporations wouldn't lower wages, especially when the cost of living rises

but here we are

Robots lack the fine motor skills for plumbing

im not talking about low skill in just one sector, like assembly lines, if every low skill labor job is replaceable with machines all at once, that would leave low skill laborers without work, and leave corporations without that sector of the population to profit from

fine motor skills is becoming far easier to make

And compactness to work in tight spaces

Not if that's their goal

How low skill? You mean like journalists?

remember that the top professors and intellects in the 90s said a computer driving a car was a physical impossibility

Remember that 5 years ago they said that automated cars were only 2 years away?

Alphabet has already put millions of miles on the road with 0 accidents

they're already here

they're just not cost effective atm

when the machinery to make these things more cheaply happens then they will be everywhere

just like all tech

To imply that fast food relies on low skill workers for their profits is laughable

Most people who work minimum wage dont get to eat out much

Not at the scale of middle and low middle class folks

@Tiberius nah ur assuming that

anecdotally I could say I know a lot of low skill workers eating out

*anecdotally*

SO apparently the "if it increases net profit, they'll do it" truth isn't fucking sticking