A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?
My local coffee place has humans who operate an espresso machine, while Starbucks has baristas who push a button, and there are vending machines that produces espresso without having an operator. None of this excites a moral panic. Kitchen labor-saving devices have been being invented for hundreds of thousands of years. What&#x27;s new?<p>Think about wheat. Wheat used to be ground in stone mills operated by oxen or wind or water, which is much more labor-intensive than today&#x27;s mills. Before that, the grinding process was even more labor-intensive.