McDonalds is Replacing 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Kiosks - Here's the Math - zerohedge.com
Excerpt from this article:
"The stock market is luvin' McDonalds stock, which has continued its recent relentless rise to all time highs, up 26% YTD, oblivious to the carnage among the broader restaurant and fast-food sector. There is a reason for Wall Street's euphoria: the same one we discussed in January in "Dear Bernie, Meet the "Big Mac ATM" That Will Replace All Of Your $15 Per Hour Fast Food Workers."
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Recommended movie (with ClearPlay):
The Founder: Risk Taker, Rule Breaker, Game Changer
And if you don't have time (or interest!) to watch this movie, you can just read the following quote from this movie instead:
"If my competitor is drowning, I'm going to go over and stick a water hose in his mouth!" - attributed to Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds (Some might say he would do the same thing to his employees if they were drowning!). Something to McThink about!
Recommended reading:
The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy, by Patrick Buchanan
Here is an except from this great book,
"No
site better captures yesterday's America than Detroit, forge and
furnace of America's democracy. Detroit is the burned out case of
American cities. The Empire of the Sun has its revenge. Japanese imports
helped kill the city that built the weapons that destroyed the empire.
Now grandsons of the soldiers of the imperial army work at high paying
manufacturing jobs once held by the fathers of ten-dollar-an-hour
retail clerks in Macomb County.
"But why blame the
Japanese? We did it to ourselves. We Americans created a post war
trading regime, in which, over 25 years, Japan bought 400,000 American
cars while selling us 40 million Japanese cars, a ratio of 100:1. One
president after another sat still while a third of America's greatest
industry was shipped off to Japan...
"Americans no
longer make their own cameras, shoes, radios, TVs, toys. A fifth of our
steal, a third of our autos, half our machine tools, and two-thirds of
our textiles are made abroad...
"The decline and fall of Middle America was neither preordained nor inevitable. It was engineered in Washington D.C. Wages
have fallen and the standard of living of American families has
stagnated because of a basic law: the law of supply and demand. The
price of labor has been dropping because the supply of labor has
exploded...
"Having declared free trade and
open borders to be American policy, why are we surprised that corporate
executives padlocked their plants in the Rust Belt and moved over seas?
Why keep your plants here when you can manufacture at a fraction of
the cost abroad, ship your goods back, and pocket the windfall profits
that come from firing $20 an hour Americans and hiring
fifty-cent-an-hour Asians? A
pair of Nikes that sells for $150 in the United States costs $5 in
wages to make in Indonesia. Any wonder that Nike president Philip
Knight is the fifth richest man in America, with $5.2 billion, while
his Indonesian workers make 31 cents an hour?" (Emphasis mine)
Recommended reading:
Even Mainstream Economists Starting to Admit That "Free Trade Agreements" Are Anything But - zerohedge.com
The Rise of the Temp Economy: More U.S. Employers Than Ever Want a 'Disposable Workforce' - endoftheamericandream.com
Companies Lay off Thousands, Then Demand Immigration Reform to Get More Workers - washingtonexaminer.com
America Summarized In One Headline: "Better Living Through Layoffs" - zerohedge.com
