Carl’s Jr CEO Says He Wants To Try Using Machines Instead Of Human Employees

Conservatives have long warned about the many perils of raising the minimum wage beyond a reasonable point.

This new backwards idea in liberal circles that we should raise the minimum wage to $15 is a great way to kill jobs and hurt the economy.

CEOs of major corporations have warned that moves like this will force them to replace human workers with automated machines.  The CEO of Carl’s Jr. has cautioned us for years about the dangers of raising the minimum wage but the left refuses to listen.

Maybe they will listen now.

From Business Insider:

The CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s has visited the fully automated restaurant Eatsa — and it’s given him some ideas on how to deal with rising minimum wages.

“I want to try it,” CEO Andy Puzder told Business Insider of his automated restaurant plans.

Puzder’s interest in an employee-free restaurant, which he says would be possible only if the company found time as Hardee’s works on its northeastern expansion, has been driven by rising minimum wages across the US.

“With government driving up the cost of labor, it’s driving down the number of jobs,” he says. “You’re going to see automation not just in airports and grocery stores, but in restaurants.”

Puzder has been an outspoken advocate against raising the minimum wage, writing two op-eds for The Wall Street Journal on how a higher minimum wage would lead to reduced employment opportunities.

Well there you have it.

Congratulations everyone.  It looks like the wheels are in motion thanks to the impractical minimum wage push that completely ignores the basic economic principle of an employer paying an employee based on what their job is worth to that business.

The minimum wage is such a simple concept.  It’s a starting point and was never meant to support a family of four and was never based on what provides a comfortable life or what doesn’t.  The free market should dictate the minimum wage in order to provide not only jobs but opportunity for everyone to move up.

Once again, the unintended consequences of liberal confusion cause devastation for the American worker.

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