The robot-ization of agriculture is not new. Its sole purpose in the past has been to threaten "labor" to hold wage or piece-work rates down. The idea is this. The robot has a known peformance. Its never as good as "humans" be it picking or thinning or other hand labor in food production. So eveyone knows how much the robot really costs in poor handling, missed processings, and other machine inefficienties. This is a direct cost to the owner of the produce and he will use that threat to manage labor rates.
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The robot-ization of agriculture is not new. Its sole purpose in the past has been to threaten "labor" to hold wage or piece-work rates down. The idea is this. The robot has a known peformance. Its never as good as "humans" be it picking or thinning or other hand labor in food production. So eveyone knows how much the robot really costs in poor handling, missed processings, and other machine inefficienties. This is a direct cost to the owner of the produce and he will use that threat to manage labor rates.
now -- when they build a robot that picks up illegals and carries them back to the border....