(January 28, 2016 at 10:10 pm)Rhythm Wrote:The company's CEO says that the lettuce will be cheap.(January 28, 2016 at 9:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Don't you know that unemployment rates will increase around the world and in all segments of society? All kinds of jobs will be automated and out-sourced to robots. For instance, a Japanese country has automated a farm to grow 30,000 heads of lettuce a day without any human involvement. The good news is that lettuce will be cheap but the bad news is that only a handful of people will make any money off of it. So who's going to buy consumer goods and services? The world's economy will collapse and there will be a global revolution.
Um........that lettuce isn't cheap at all. You don't go vertical hydro low pesticide if you plan on selling it cheap. This group plans to seize a -very- lucrative market. The system helps them do -that-...it doesn't help them grow lettuce cheaply. If there's going to be a global meltdown it isn't on account of this. If this is what cheap lettuce looks like, then field labor is safe for the forseable future.
(I deeply and truly wish it were otherwise, btw. You know, if a global economic meltdown included the scenario in which food was so cheap no one could be bothered to pay a dime worth anything to another person for it.....that would have to be an argument -in favor- of meltdown. A pleasant unintended side effect.)
http://www.techinsider.io/spreads-robot-...oon-2016-1
"The resulting increase in revenue and resources could cut costs for consumers, Price says."
"Our mission is to help create a sustainable society where future generations will not have to worry about food security and food safety," Price says. "This means that we will have to make it affordable for everyone and begin to grow staple crops and plant protein to make a real difference.""
Some tomatoes are already grown in similar facilities but they use manpower to harvest them. The new lettuce facility will use a minimum workforce. When people around the world become surplus expect social unrest to explode everywhere.
