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gotocake says: "But not a machine to affordably and accurately pick strawberries or citrus": https://www.bing.com/search?q=strawberry+picking+machine&form=OPRT
by giardini 8y ago
gotocake says: "But not a machine to affordably and accurately pick strawberries or citrus":
https://www.bing.com/search?q=strawberry+picking+machine&form=OPRTSD&pc=OPER https://www.bing.com/search?q=strawberry+picking+machine&for...
gotocake says: "this hard and unpleasant work":
http://whvaustralia.net/fruit-picking-hard/ http://whvaustralia.net/fruit-picking-hard/
Certainly we don't need to castigate anyone. But we don't need more (illegal or legal) unskilled immigrants taking jobs that will soon be supplanted entirely by automation. We need skilled professions: doctors, engineers, nurses and (God forbid) lawyers.
We'd be fine (indeed, we'd be better off) w/o _any_ of the 7,000-14,000 migrants headed toward the USA's southern border right now.
- iguy 8y agoRight, it's a mistake to think that there are a fixed number of low-skill jobs which need filling. A mistake encouraged by propaganda from those heavily invested in industries set up to employ them. Swiss people clean their own damn homes at a wage which, in India, would justify several servants. This in turn drives a market for Roomba early adopters... but also just for less obvious technology, like houses well-enough sealed against dust.