Inevitable…
I realize I’m in the minority still, but it seems to me that Andrew Yang and those who inspired him are being proven right about this whole “war on normal people”.
As it turns out, there’s officially a fully automated Mcdonalds currently operating in Texas. Yes, there are no employees on this particular building and from what I’ve been able to gather, it includes the kitchen too, not just the customer service part.
As someone who’s first “real job” was Mcdonald's all those decades ago, I can’t help but to feel nostalgic and somewhat sad about this whole thing.
I believe the experience of working in this restaurant really set my mind straight growing up. Having to deal with difficult people, developing work relationships, learning to survive the difficulties of life and what not, are now memories I hold fondly in my heart.
Sentiments aside, I’m not blind to the fact that for a considerable chunk of people who worked there with me, THAT was their plan for life, for retirement, for growth even. We could sit here and say that they need to do better, but that’s besides the point that they exist already. This is precisely why it seems very much like war on normal people.
I’m fully convinced they will, and why not? It’s going to make more money for the people who own these restaurants (assuming it’s franchised, as most of them are), and they won’t have to surf the complicated labor laws they always complain about.
Higher wages be damned….
