Who would want fat, old, ugly people facing customers?
Not any smart boss.
It’s both wrong and right at the same time.
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A robot tax, a tax on electricity usage … back in the days in my home country companies were taxed on electric motor HP (horsepower).
Sample one in Tainan here in South. Give food and free tutoring/school help, new brach that just recently opened.
Help for COVID affected families (job loss), pass them food without loss of face
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Uhh. Wrong.
There is no such ‘iron law’ as you mention.
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ah, I see Robots serving man, look at in a good way.
In Taiwan? Curious what kind of companies did they start?
Yes, serving up some hot lead. 
McDonalds and MosBurger hire a lot of older ladies. Their service and communication skills are excellent.
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From the picture the hard working robot is hunting a dangerous girl.
Oh so now we’re quoting bullshit Marx. We live in a mixed capitalist economy, not a communist state. Wages are not doomed to be lower.
The socalled ‘Iron Law’ isn’t even a law, nor is it iron [clad]. 
Not a true economic theory.
Since the time of Karl Marx, wages and standards of living have bucked his hypotheses and risen quite dramatically. where the world of the mid 19th century is unrecognisable to us.
Proposals are not fact.
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Yes, much better than the younger staff, who can be pretty useless.
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Who can be beautifully useless.
for your point of view:
My view, they help bring us to utopia
Misses the point as he often does. If they want high fertility rates, they need horny foreigner alpha males.
They have because of unions, socialist policies. Stuff like the FLSA in the US, 40 hour workweek, are all socialist policies.
Without government intervention then the iron law of wage will apply.
The US in recent years have only pandered to rich capitalists and so their labor policies remain backward compared to even many developing countries.
The 160nt minimum wage is not that far from $7.25 if you think about it.
But it’s clear capitalists have to be reined in. We don’t need 100% socialist government but we can’t have 100% capitalist too.
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You’re talking to an economist here.
The modern concept of trade unions was not a socialist creation. They were made in the mixed capitalist economy.
Labour is still a market just like when you buy goods and services. If what you bring to the table is not valuable enough, you’re not going to get the higher wages.
You still need to be competitive.
Unions aren’t socialist. They’re pooling resources to give greater market power.
Unions ARE capitalist.
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I am 99.87% sure I am irreplaceable and untouchable, but I’m still not seeing that raise. 
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Nobody could replace @ranlee the Mod.
But seriously, think closely at what I said.
Labour is a market. It is subject to supply and demand similarly to goods and services.
The worker is a one man corporation selling their time. We live in a culture here in Taiwan and not that far off from Canada where we value ‘high-class’ work like office work and scoff at ‘low-class’ work.
We are the supply in the labour market. We’re the product, when you work for a company, your boss is the customer. You need to satisfy the customer. Office work may take more skills, but nobody wants to be bus drivers, despite them making $80000-100000/m.
Sanchung Bus even pays people to successfully apply an extra $20000 they’re so desperate for workers.
Your replaceability is not only based off your skills, but your price. If you’re a ‘good deal’, you are irreplaceable as well.
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