"[D]emand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread." - Emma Goldman, said to a crowd during the panic of 1893.
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Because there are restrictions on what hours minors can work and what equipment they can operate.
Guess what job they do the most of? Cashier.
Guess what job these kiosks replace? Cashier.
You still need humans to do the cooking, to troubleshoot system issues, you'll always need a proper cashier for times when systems go down or you have a disabled patron (blind for example), you'll need people cleaning the facility and parking lot, taking the trash out, restocking things.
This is a chicken little issue "ermagerd, a kiosk is going to replace a cashier, we're all gonna starve to death when our jobs are replaced!!!".
This is something we WANT. Widespread adoption of kiosks gives John Q Public a wake up that automation can replace jobs, it gives minimum wage workers yet another nudge that saying "do you want fries with that" isn't a career.
They're replacing cashiers, the most pointless and un-fulfilling job on the planet. It'll be ok.
If the kiosks cause people to lose a job and, say fall behind in rent, then they create homeless people or bad educational outcomes, or any of the other consequences of poverty.
If we want to continue our 35 year old preposterous cult of imagining everyone who is homeless are really just lazy versions Jeff Bezos who don't apply themselves, then we will continue to get the same results having that approach has generated.
It is empirically beyond any reasonable doubt, demonstrably conclusive to be a highly dysfunctional and patently incorrect approach to structuring a society. Sure, let's have kiosks, but let's also prioritize not having profound disruptive deleterious harm to society in the process. There's consequences and costs to all of us for our negligence, incompetence and irresponsibility.
Those who continue to advocate for ignoring this reality are controlled and blinded by their passions and preference. It's terribly wrong and we are suffering the consequences.
Not the adults that can work nights, early mornings and you know, legally operate the grill and fryers.