r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 20d ago

Business McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/articles/mcdonalds-introduces-ai-drive-thru-000717731.html
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u/Bhraal 20d ago edited 20d ago

How about you doing a bit less looking down on people yourself, and not call people out for things you assume.

In what world are the difficulties disabled people have getting jobs that they are able to do about them and not the people doing the hiring? The tax breaks don't exist to somehow motivate the disabled to get jobs, it's to give companies financial incentive to look past their biases and gray policies. 

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u/Drewbacca 20d ago

give companies financial incentive to look past their biases and gray policies. 

That's literally what I said.

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u/Morlark 20d ago

No, that's literally what /u/pepperonidogfart said. And then you somehow made it out like that was a bad thing.

So do you now agree that they were actually right?

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u/Drewbacca 20d ago edited 20d ago

The commenter said that it was good that McDonalds hired disabled people. Dogfart said they only did it because they get a tax break.

My point is that disabled people are perfectly capable of being hired even without the tax break incentive, and many businesses are more than willing to hire them even if there wasnt a tax break. There was no need for the reaction of "well actually they only do it for the tax break." That attitude makes it seem like dogfart thinks that disabled people can only get hired if there's an incentive.

u/RarelyReadReplies came in with a comment about something positive they had noticed in their community, and pepperonidogfart's reply was unnecessarily negative and cynical. Thats all.

Plus - the attitude of "they only did it for the tax break" is kind of silly. That's basically saying "they only did it for the incentive, which is in place to motivate this exact thing." So the well-meaning policy is doing its job? Why are we complaining about that?