I'm talking about the person who takes your order, but I agree that a few fast food jobs are irreplaceable - for now. I've notice that many chains still have not open their dining rooms back up. They are basically anticipating drive through to be like a giant vending machine. No humans other than to maybe stock the machine every week.

Office workers have already mostly lost their jobs. The economy is propped up to prevent revolution. The jobs are fake, and the pandemic proved it. You can find stories from "the average office worker" all over Reddit talking about how their job is basically just sending a few emails a day, attending a pointless Zoom and then browsing Reddit for the remaining 7 hours.

They could automate drive through ordering yesterday. They don't (and I'm speculating) because the economy is far more top-directed than we realize and "the powers that be" know that eliminating jobs too quickly will cause riots.

The Fed exists to create employment, and the Fed is what props up the stock market where the McDonalds of the world get their funding.

Henry Ford said that if the average person understood how the economy really works there would be riots, and I think this is a glimpse of that. The economy is not really about making money - these big, Fed linked companies, essentially get free money - the economy is really about control over the population and solidification of the class system, i.e. the economy is not necessarily about efficiency - it's about power, and the last thing the ruling class wants is revolution.