half-formed idea

Early last morning when I was writing the post I started out with an idea I had to accommodate all the people the elite no longer have a use for. It was kind of a half-formed idea and it wasn't coming across well and I was short on time so I just published the whole thing to keep it from getting lost.
When I came back later I was in no mood to expound my theory so I edited that out and put in that thing about having to wait behind some dope who is paying for like a bottle of pop but then decides to do his banking there also.  I wonder if there are some guys who buy a pack of gum just to get some money out of their accounts.

I generally carry cash, cold clean cash with portraits of our beloved leaders, various patriotic symbols, even memos about in Whom we trust.  It goes right from my hand to the cashiers,, no plinky plonking which you know I hate,  Did you know that that thing where do you want to take out cash is one of the screens you have to wade through?  I'm sure it's there because the people who hire these guys to write these things make a little cash out of every transaction.  Well I'm beating a dead horse here, when I presented the issue last post neither of the dawgs was pissed off about  it.  And they call themselves grumpy old men.

And both of the dawgs similarly seem to not believe that automation is a job killer.  Way back when I was teen I remember coming across the theory that machines weren't taking away jobs because somebody had to make them and somebody had to run them etc.  But I gave that the Bohunk fish eye. The thing is if it takes just as many people to build them and run them etc as the jobs they are taking away, why would we be using them?  Where would be the savings?

Some would say well they are just eliminating the dull rote jobs, and that might have been true for awhile but anymore Artificial Intelligence is stalking the halls of employment,  My sister was a medical coder, a very complicated job where you translate a doctor's notes into something that can be used for billing and for medical records.  For years she was overworked at pay that was not all that great. There was a shortage of coders and yet the hospitals were unwilling to train people or pay more money to entice people to get into coding.  Why was that I wondered.  And now those jobs are being replaced by AI.  Did the hospitals see this coming and were just stalling with their coders until they could be replaced?  I think so.

And no I read where AI is creeping into reading X Rays and making diagnoses, into the doctors' turf. Probably not that long until they get into the law, and how much after that to where they are making the laws?

Well I don't worry that much about  the machines ruling us, I mean looks who's doing that now?  But I am wondering what happens to all the people whose labor we don't need anymore.

My half-formed idea is that we should go artisanal.  Sure you can eat cheap at McDonalds where everybody is making minimum wage, but isn't it nicer to eat at a fancy restaurant where people are taking care and not pumping things out, isn't it worth a little more money?  And why not pay the McDonald's people more so they can be more artisanal too?  I mean don't we want to pay people money so that they can buy the stuff we make to make us rich?

This idea is still half-formed.  I'm going to have to give it more thought.