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> most Americans don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for a living If it was just some cultural thing, then we'd have more than enough immigrants to cor

> most Americans don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for a living If it was just some cultural thing, then we'd have more than enough immigrants to correct for most Americans not wanting to do it. The problem is that there exists no cultural group that wants these jobs, native born or otherwise, at the pay and benefits offered. People switch to better jobs as soon as they find one. > Americans also want food to be cheap I assume everyone would prefer if everything is cheap? This is a problem that effects any business.

samstave 8y ago
It's not as much about the fact that people don't want to do the work, it's about the quality of life said work allows. These cheap farm laborers need housing food schools medicine transportation goals a life. What robots do is reduce all that ripple effect of societal load on all the other aspects of sustaining the labor force and their human needs. Focusing on simply labor and it's price for the task at hand is stupidly myopic. And reveals the greater impact autonomous robotic labor will really have. Let's assume California's Central valley in 50 years time is vast swaths of robotic farms. All other human infrastructure in these places die. Restaurants, stores, schools, housing, police fire etc fall back to early 1900s levels (or some smaller density level of the past)