Agriculture doesn’t begin to count for one in 10 jobs nationwide—unless I suppose you count restaurant and grocery store workers!
And there is no special reason that agriculture needs government investment. If new tech and products are economically viable, then those who develop and market them will be rewarded in the free market system as in any other sector.
What we need to do, which is the opposite of what Kushner is apparently doing with Trump’s immigration plan, is to stop with importing cheap labor for it. That more than anything is what is retarding ag’s investment in tech. And without capital investments, individual jobs don’t become more valuable and more highly rewarded.
True - but by the same token, as Charlie Daniels put in a song, “If the man don’t work, the People don’t eat.”