Agriculture is unique in that farmers will vary their choice season to season based on what is cheaper. It shows that low skilled labor is still very competitiv

Agriculture is unique in that farmers will vary their choice season to season based on what is cheaper. It shows that low skilled labor is still very competitive, simply because of how incredibly cheap it is. There is much more incentive to turn an $80K a year programming position into a $30K a year lower skilled position using point and click tools to achieve the same task as the margin differences are much much higher. EDIT: You must remember that machine automation is not infinitely and immediately scalable the way software automation is. With agriculture, automation providers can only manufacture enough to meet current demand and cannot simply lower prices increase volume and market share because they have real raw material floors to their costs.