What do the people who fight these developments expect? Forcing Freshii to employ Canadian workers? I don't see how this is different to any other form of remote work that employs out-of-country workers.<p>I'm not commenting on whether the customer experience is better or worse - that is an optimization that Freshii is making. Perhaps this technology allows them to serve better food from their kitchen, or perhaps it's a simple cost reduction to maximize profit. Consumers can vote with their wallets.<p>If your job is something that can be outsourced via video call then the writing is on the wall for the automation of that job. Today you're competing against a worker in Nicaragua, tomorrow you're competing against a generative machine learning algorithm. Instead of focusing on the employers making these efficiencies, we should be focusing on programmes that help up-skill the replaced workers.
In India, inr 500/day seems to be the minimum wage these days for unskilled labour. Inr 500= $6.25~<p>The 3.75/hour is literally more than what many skilled workers make in India. 3.75<i>8</i>80=2400 inr. For 20 days =inr 48,000. Annually 576,000.00. To put that into context,<p>In India you are exempt from paying income tax if your annual income is less than inr 500,000. That covers like 95% or something of india population so if Indians get this job, many many people will get to earn a good bread
Wait.....actual face to face contact with people earning 3.75. This is revolutionary???<p>Sure, we are sometimes told there are people living on as little as 10 cents per hour. We might even see a picture at times. It's easy to emotionally distance yourself from. Sure, we might donate sometimes and some part of our donation might actually end up with people in need. We sort of have to imagine our good deed had any effect.... why is the CEO earning 300 k?....woah so much spending on advertisement?... O well, what do I know, it might be required.<p>On the other end, one would much rather work and take care of themselves than depend on hand outs. Hand outs are humiliating. Who wants to depend on hand outs?
>>“Shipping jobs to an offshore location to pay less than a third of our minimum wage here is just extremely disappointing, and, quite frankly, I’m disgusted a company like Freshii would take this approach,” said Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress.<p>Indeed disappointing from that perspective; yet fighting it is also futile.<p>If they somehow get such a direct remote cashier arrangement outlawed, it'll just be rearranged at most to a set of self-service kiosks with a remote support booth available, or some such further abstraction.<p>Plus, even the remote cashier and support job will also be transient, as the technology improves.
Same, it's so downing when I remember I'm working for a spanish client with all spanish coworkers and I'm making 1/10th of spanish minimum wage.