pre-made pancakes, a type of food that I didn’t know existed until now.

Well McDonalds has been using them for years. I’ve even seen frozen 10 packs at the grocery store.

I hope the robots like to eat pancakes, too. A robot took my job now i can’t afford pancakes.

Just to echo Bilal’s comment, McDs in specific, and the fast food industry in general. Resturants that “hand make” anything anymore simply cost too much in terms of productivity, food storage, and waste. Hardees claims that they still hand make their biscuits, but that is so streamlined that waste is reduced to a minimum. America runs on instant foods. The next step in cost savings is echoing robottookmyjob’s comment: remove the human element.

The bots will have no problem if they ever decided to enslave humanity. Cut off our food supply. We’d surrender in a week, tops.

Wouldnt it be nice if we could stop replacing jobs with robots. Especially as unemployment is rising across the board. I blame Tescos for this, they drive prices so low that manufacturing is pushed to either robotics or slave labour in countries where you can get away with it…

Theres an easy answer, boycott Tescos.

Thank you,
very interesting article

To all of you complaining about robots taking jobs or even suggesting that we boycott companies that make food using robots: Here’s an idea, how about we share the work that needs to be done instead of creating a bunch of stupid pointless jobs.

Boycotting companies that use robots in order to create more jobs is just as stupid as hiring people to sit in front of a pancake stacking robot and twiddle their thumbs or surf the internet while the robot does all the work for them. The same amount of work is done in both cases and extra jobs (albeit stupid, pointless jobs) are created in both cases. Hiring people to make food by hand was useful in the past, but now it’s a pointless waste of time.

Robots make life easier by decreasing the amount of work that needs to be done. Whereas before people had to spend time making pancakes by hand, now they can just buy a bunch of premade ones and not have to do that extra work.

But because the total amount of work decreases, everyone has to work less. That means whereas everyone worked 40 hours/week before robots were used, afterwards they have to work 35 hours/weeks, something which the average materialistic, greedy as hell, and violently competitive American can’t comprehend. If everyone tries to work 40 hrs/wk, or even starts working 60 hrs/wk to outdo the Joneses, then someone’s going to be left unemployed.

People focus creating new jobs and preventing old jobs from being lost in order to reduce unemployment, but for some reason no one thinks about splitting the work up so that more people work fewer hours to do the same amount of work. Maybe we need to try that 30-hour workweek Congress tried to pass in 1933 but failed. Then we might have some free time to enjoy life too, but nooooo, then we can’t *gasp* keep up with the neighbors, and *SHOCK-HORROR* live the “American dream” of having a mansion and 3 cars. Fuck the unemployed people, when we can live in luxury (oops did I say live? I meant work till we drop in luxury).

Screw this, I’m going to move to Europe and have my 5 weeks of vacation per year.

If you want all the robotic factories gone maybe you should just go live in an Amish settlement. You might have to work all your waking hours just to produce enough food to survive because of the lack of labor saving technology, but hey, at least you won’t have to worry about losing your job!

That the robots save us!