In the latest installment of our "Dear Bernie" series, posts intended to inform the Vermont Senator about the unintended, negative consequences of minimum wage hikes, we present SAM (Semi-Automated Mason), a brick laying robot designed and engineered by Construction Robotics out of New York. While SAM can do the work of 6 unionized masons each day, he never requires a break, benefits or a paycheck.
Last year at wound clinic, they remodeled the restroom for the patients. It was a Mexican laying the floor tiles. Not sure how much they were paying him. But that is a high dollar clinic. My doctor there recently made a trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos by private airplane. He saw the tortoises. He said there were a lot of them. ;)