The reality, regarding jobs, about all of this: jobs will be outsourced to countries with cheaper labor.
It's already happening: kiwibots, which runs teleoperated delivery robots, is using drivers from Colombia, for $2/hour.
It's already happening: kiwibots, which runs teleoperated delivery robots, is using drivers from Colombia, for $2/hour.
When operating machines in California workers should be paid the Californian minimum wage. Companies that refuse should be denied the opportunity to operate in California.
Would you propose to use the same method for other remote services such as call center support?
> It seems that would also require reporting to every locality you operate robots in individually
Yes, exactly. That should be required. Also your call center idea is pretty good too, though I think not quite as clear cut as having remote laborers use robotic bodies to circumvent minimum wage laws.
This type of labor falls pretty squarely in the "information work" category, and often (as in your Kiwi example) looks mostly like operators performing a high-level task like specifying waypoints on a map.
This sounds like saying someone in India who wrote code for a website being accessed from California needs to be paid CA minimum wage.