Warehouse workers get paid around the same rates in California yet you don't see automated warehouses. You see things like some goods to person robots and automated sortation and with the big retailers like Amazon, they still throw labor at the issue.
Industry has been trying to push automation with app based ordering(eg: starbucks) even before this change.
It was common for in the past for high schoolers to work manual labor. I worked on a farm during the summer in my youth for example. Teenage labor participation is at record lows.
Industry has been trying to push automation with app based ordering(eg: starbucks) even before this change.
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