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So if McDonalds completely automates that'll be good for the economy? Because it'll either lower their prices or give them more money to invest in expansion? Funny their prices didn't drop when they installed the order taking machines, according to you that means they will expand, but as they continue to automate that will create fewer and fewer jobs as they expand would it not? So are you suggesting that once they fully automate they will then drop their prices? That's a gamble you'd be willing to take?
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McDonald's is second only to WalMart as a target in the battle for a $15 wage. You can find numbers around 1.2 billion in public aid that we're forced to spend covering McDonald's employees.
That said, do you not see the connection between social pressure to pay people more and this strange and scary decent into automation? You're going to need a thousand fingers to plug the thousand holes from all the unintended consequences of your economic engineering.
However, the thing about automation, even at McDonald's, is that it isn't killing jobs. Like the ATM, McDonald's is repurposing employees to more meaningful roles. Instead of cashier work, employees are offering table service, more customer service, not less....
http://globalnews.ca/news/2582516/mc...of-the-future/