RE: Universal basic income in the future
June 8, 2017 at 9:59 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2017 at 10:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 8, 2017 at 9:28 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Khemikal Wrote:Always work to do in the fields.
The fields are being automated too.
Those field hands left in fields have resisted the strongest and earliest wave of automation in human history (ever since oxen pulled a bound moldboard along a guide-line). They've resisted it on grounds of competence, cost, accessibility, and availability..meanwhile, the automation is becoming more expensive.... and ecologically untenable. Farms are struggling to pay John Deere, the earth is struggling for us using John Deere.
In the absence of cheap, acceptable fossil fuels and petro-products...the best plow and the best IPM... is a person. The best thresher, is a person. The best pickers for mixed operations (and most fruiting monocultures) are -already- people, and have always been people. It's conceivable that they might be replaced, someday...but it's really not, when you look at it for what it is, the sort of thing that lends itself easily to automation - or we'd have done it long ago, like we did with all of the things in ag that -do- lend themselves to automation. Meanwhile, even things that have been automated are still..largely done by people most of the time..and not for no reason.
I stand by it, there will always be work in the fields. IDK whether or not it's good work™..lol, but hey.
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