[beardicus]

> If these cooking robots are just glorified assembly lines that require uniform inputs, they should be taxed to the point they do not displace a human.

A human line cook is also part of a "glorified assembly line that requires uniform inputs". This does not preclude the use of real/fresh ingredients, and also of course requires the employ of a human prep team to turn lumpy items into uniform ingredients.

[rglullis]

But a human gets paid for it. The local economy benefits from that. A fully automated system removes any possible middlemen from the chain and exacerbates the concentration of wealth.

[gruez]

>But a human gets paid for it. The local economy benefits from that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Paying people to dig holes only to fill it back again also results in humans getting paid and the local economy "benefiting". That doesn't mean we should be mandating that companies do that, or get the government to enact such programs.