Oliver Bateman Does the Work (@oliverbatemandoesthework)

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The whole point of the current “management revolution” is to eliminate management — some bad AI equivalent with video surveillance or AI assisted store managers will eventually eliminate layers of this oversight (shrink and food cost gains are < than more warm bodies, who cares) — so this pathway will close except at freaky privately-held outliers like In-N-Out (where good service can be the point simply because it isn’t anywhere else)

If you want to see how useful low-skilled workers really are, go to a Japanese 7-11. There, you will encounter cashiers of utmost competence. As a tourist, it’s a pleasure. But from an economic point of view, it is a tragic waste of human potential. If Japan welcomed a hundred million low-skilled immigrants, native-born cashiers would become store managers almost overnight. They’re more than qualified for the job! But in actually-existing Japan, high-skilled workers are stuck doing low-skilled work

Bryan Caplan

May 11

3:28 PM

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