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And why is that? Could it have anything to do with the fact that the business benefits by making the customers the employees, too? Would a business be in any way incentivized to make paying customers also perform labor for them?
Of course they are. What of it?
So? I get through checkout faster because I don't have to wait behind old people who take a fucking eternity to find their wallet. For me it's a win/win. It sucks that some people will lose their job to it, sure. But that's what happens literally every single time society progresses. I'm also not sad about the manual telephone exchange lady losing her job.
She's still there, she's just stuck at one of the six kiosks while Americans finally figured out how to queue in one line.