When I was in the US the last time (must be around 20 years ago) there was a man in booth in a parking garage. It was something I had naver really seen in germany before. All our garages were already automated back then.
Later I thought about that and got to the conclusion that this person’s work must be cheaper than just putting up an automated system.
The US seems to have a few other jobs that I had never seen in germany. Greeter, bagger, sign spinner.
I don’t know what it looks like today but for me that looks like jobs just to make people work.
I’m in the US and I park in a large hospital’s parking garage a few times a year because one of my doctors has their office there.
They have automated systems AND a human in a booth. I think the human is mostly there to fix problems because the automated system uses paper tickets to track your time in the garage.
Many times in the past there has been a human standing at the ticket dispensing machine who would push the button as you roll up and hand you your parking slip.
Anecdotal but around where I live in the US all the garages/lots have gone automated. You use an app or take a ticket to scan when you’re leaving. I’m all for automation but we really need to offset its societal impact with something like UBI.
When I was in the US the last time (must be around 20 years ago) there was a man in booth in a parking garage. It was something I had naver really seen in germany before. All our garages were already automated back then.
Later I thought about that and got to the conclusion that this person’s work must be cheaper than just putting up an automated system.
The US seems to have a few other jobs that I had never seen in germany. Greeter, bagger, sign spinner.
I don’t know what it looks like today but for me that looks like jobs just to make people work.
I’m in the US and I park in a large hospital’s parking garage a few times a year because one of my doctors has their office there.
They have automated systems AND a human in a booth. I think the human is mostly there to fix problems because the automated system uses paper tickets to track your time in the garage.
Many times in the past there has been a human standing at the ticket dispensing machine who would push the button as you roll up and hand you your parking slip.
Americuuuuh!
Anecdotal but around where I live in the US all the garages/lots have gone automated. You use an app or take a ticket to scan when you’re leaving. I’m all for automation but we really need to offset its societal impact with something like UBI.