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Originally Posted by fjtorres
And this breed of automation isn't displacing anybody. Instead it is making up for labor shortfalls and amplifying the output of the existing labor force.
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Not so. In general, automation in agriculture does not create jobs, it takes them away. It's obvious, really.
Automated farming: good news for food security, bad news for job security?
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many of these technologies require very little human labour. For example, Japanese company Spread has recently announced that robots will carry out all but one of the tasks required to grow tens of thousands of lettuces each day in its indoor automated farm.
The issue of labour is even more important for the economies of the global south, where there are fewer urban job opportunities. In those countries, technologies that take labour out of the fields may undermine efforts to reduce poverty and enhance development.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Said mailman doesn't work there (drone creation/sales/maintenance) because there wasn't a demand for it when he was job-huntng. There's nothng stopping him from doing so after (not that I see drone-delvery eliminating that many postal service jobs).
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The problem with that argument is that once the drone is built by our hypothetical re-positioned postal-worker, the drone will go on doing the ex-postal-workers job day after to day for a long time. Whereas the construction of the drone would have taken a day, unless a robot builds it, in which case it would be much cheaper and much quicker.