text: Contracting out, importation of labour, out sourcing to other countries, call centres in other countries, and increasing automation and self service.
  
  I caught the new Blade Runner movie the other night, and I could easily see the business cry to bring on the replicants.  The desire for unpaid labour, no matter the societal cost.
  
  It is not going to matter if the minimum wage is $15 or $11. If business can automate or get that labour for free or next to free, that is where employment is heading.