Once again unintended consequences will spoil misguided good intentions.
Back in the 60s when Cesar Chavez was “organizing” California’s farm workers, he pushed for things like available Porta Poties as well as higher wages. By God the Tomato pickers would finally have a living wage. But labor costs became so high that some clever engineers developed a tomato-picking machine. Now they had to develop a type of tomato that could survive being picked by said machine, but UC Davis was able to pull it off. The new tomatoes didn’t taste as good as the older hand-picked variety, but you have to pay a price for progress.
The new wage for tomato pickers dropped to $0 whether they joined the United Farm Workers or not.