[Patriot Babe]

We should be hearing the outcry from the Illegals soon.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Robots doing jobs Americans won’t!

[MUDDOG]

Instead of letting in a bunch of illegals to do farm work, Japan automated it.

Good choice.

[Scrambler Bob]

Just program the robots in “C++/espanol”

[Mastador1]

Do they have mexican robots that fertilize the fields as they work them so we can still have E-coli outbreaks?

[Lizavetta]

Whatever it is, make it red leaf lettuce and romaine. No iceberg.

[dainbramaged]

A robot won’t drop a deuce in the lettuce patch, either.

[InterceptPoint]

From the army of machines that work in Amazon warehouses to automatons that milk cows, the job-taking robots of the future are among us.
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The next thing you know they’ll start using robots to assemble our buggy whips. There is simply no end to it.

Added note: Do we actually think we are somehow going to run out of things that need to be done? I don’t think so. Robots don’t steal our jobs, governments do.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Indoor farming has always intrigued me. It's actually called vertical farming and it's something that's a no-brainer. Everything grown would be organic, free of pesticides, weather, and diseases. This is something that should be vigorously pursued.

[ClearCase_guy]

“There are only two industries. This has always been true....There is the industry of things, and the industry of entertainment....After people have the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. Everything.”
-- Neal Stephenson

We approach a post-scarcity era where machines provide much that we need, and there is diminished need for labor from a great many humans.

But one shudders to think what will pass for "entertainment". The old "knockout game" may be a foretaste.

[left that other site]

Make it Arugula! Have you SEEN the price of arugula lately? :-)

[pa_dweller]

Wait, wouldn’t it be easier to fire up my 3D printer and get fresh lettuce materialized right in the kitchen?

[Mr. Blond]

If only lettuce had real nutritional value.

[Tupelo]

Robot Farmers of the Future Might Grow 10 Million Heads of NO TASTE Lettuce a Year

There I fixed the headline.

[Captainpaintball]

No need for the illegals, unless their REAL “yob” is to REPLACE the American’t voter.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

But...but...but...what’ll happen to all the illegals who are happy to do this work no Americans will?

I guess they’ll have to Move it on up! into IT, where those lazy, overpaid American computer experts can then team up with them through the buddy system and train them as their replacements...if they want their severance package.

[butlerweave]

Lettuce = Zero Food Value ,it’s all water

[bgill]

I want one to pull weeds.

[Moonman62]

Anybody remember this?

McCain: Americans’ won’t work for as little as $50/hour picking lettuce (April 4, 2006)

[NonValueAdded]

It has already been done: