Meet Your New Replacement, Son

March 14, 2021

By NZB3

Supermarkets, fast food, The Warehouse, and K-Mart, have all been replacing humans with robots at the check-outs. It’s a reaction to artificial demands for increased wages, for a Minimum Wage currently branded as “a living wage.”

It’s not that capital/technology replacing labour jobs is a bad thing. It’s wonderful that machines should do more grunt work and mundane tasks automated. That’s how we become more productive. So what’s the trouble?

The pace of this change has been forced. Instead of a transmission giving workers time to adjust and re-task these sorts of displacements are being rushed due to political interference.

Furthermore, the market might very well prefer personal service rather than robots. But that’s too bad, the political situation priced you out in the name of ‘equity’ to the (now fired) worker.

Developments like this ought to happen at a natural pace, not one inflicted by governments as unintended consequences. It’s like having a premature baby. You want the baby, sure, but it’s better to let it develop to full term rather than preterm. When you crash-birth a baby there are complications. That’s the problem with Accellerationism.

Experienced workers at Restaurant Brands get paid more because they did their time and up-skilled within the business. New folk earn less, they’re on minimum wage.

As a group, the workers all wanted that minimum wage to go higher. It went higher, closing the gap between the new unskilled guys and the ones who had done their time.

Happy now? No. Now the more skilled guys are jealous that their merit and experience has been undermined by the minimum wage rise. What was the point of all that hard work? Now they’re not earning much more than the minimum wage geek off the street! Reaction: Protest!

The logic of resentment. Rather than get angry that the lowly among you are artificially being paid more than they deserve…the government’s fault….you get angry at the firm being forced to implement this injustice. Hell, you probably insisted that they do so, didn’t you?