This made me check out follow-ups to the automated fast food story:
Time will tell whether or not consumers or corporations reject it first. However, that linked article on trucking gave me flashbacks to a few other reports in the workers and unions topic. In particular, it reminds me of systems tracking rail workers and why their numbers are decreasing the recent podcast about how the restaurant industry association owns the certification programs that workers are forced to use, and how debt is being increasingly weaponized to prevent turnover. Basically, multiple industries are following the same playbook - making workers pay for their own oppression in addition to corporate welfare that comes from crying about non-existent labor shortages, unnecessary tax breaks, and forcing employees onto public assistance by refusing to pay enough to cover the costs of living. AI isn’t the problem, it’s the insatiably greedy corporate owners and pols who enable them. 
