I remember when I was a young foreman back in the late 70s and the union went on strike. Within two weeks, we had office workers trained well enough in the floor jobs to where our production and scrap rates were comparable to what those who operated the machinery for a living produced. And this was a highly regulated industry, using state of the art (for the time) equipment and processes to make medical plastics, tubing and compounds. The lesson that taught was that if anyone can do what you do with that minimal level of time in training, how much effort have you put into yourself? What value are you offering to make doing business with you worth it?
Most of us have worked crap minimum wage jobs, often while going to school. They're not intended to be the end all. And in terms of people having kids and needing more money, everybody who doesn't know how babies are made or that choices have consequences, raise your hand. You shouldn't get to make those choices and then use the up-to-lethal force of government to make those who made better choices pay for them.
The bad thing about kiosks like that is they require some intelligence to use. I've seen people dumbfounded by Redbox, which is about as simple as you can get.
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