This trend is crazy. For the company a staffless shop means less expenditure and more profit. For the unemployed it means fewer work opportunities. Worldwide in developed and underdeveloped countries we see increasing populations, every increasing numbers of well educated young people emerging from learning centres and increasingly high numbers of youth unemployment. We are already seeing the frustration that this engenders spilling into the streets in volatile demonstrations. Civil and violent demonstrations are becoming a worldwide phenomonen.
There is enough financial capacity in most countries to continue encouraging robotization and work displacement with high profits for companies and corporations focussed solely on shareholder and proprietorship wealth without regard to the social cost and the increasing resort to drugs, alcohol and crime as a response to a future without hope for the many millions who will never find work.
If I go to a supermarket using scanning systems I avoid them and just go to a manned checkout. These mindless profit making shops need to be boycotted. Where possible, I enter banks and seek staff assistance rather than use ATMs.
(Thank you. That is my rant for today.)
