Oddbean new post about login | logout The logic of the OP also doesn't make any sense unless robots were free and required no maintenance. By his reasoning, "true minimum wage" wouldn't be $0, it would be (robot cost + expected maintenance costs - salvage value)/expected service hours which going to be a number quite a bit larger than zero.
what's hilarious is that they've shown that paying people that aren't immigrants to pick tomatoes adds like 5c to a freaking tomato
Yeah, labor costs are typically a miniscule fraction of the cost of bringing a product to market. The marginal difference between paying living wages to citizens versus paying chump change to illegal aliens is relatively tiny. Still, corporations will choose it if they can get away with it because they are run by greedy jews who don't give a fuck.
it's more than that, because when people have been given the choice to pay a little extra for their people, they will.
I buy soap and coffee from /ourguys/ even though it's more expensive.
Watch out for a company called Black Rifle Coffee, they're lying woke jews pretending to be based.
Yeah, I hear the CEO also likes fucking men in the ass.
woah, that's gay
The idiots are focused on [X] cents per kWH, ignoring initial buy-in, and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). And because robots aren't subject to labor laws, they'll expect it to work 24/7. That means every time there's a hiccup, they're "losing money". Did they plan ahead for when it's outlived it's usefulness and they're forced to upgrade? The next robot isn't going to be nearly as affordable, these aren't consumer goods. When your entire labor force is nothing but robots, and the assembly line comes to a grinding halt, you will pay anything to get it up and running again.