Maybe someday they will be forced to pay 250K for a machine that they use three weeks a year like grain farmers in the Midwest.
And make new and higher paying manufacturing, mechanic and operator jobs Americans want. When the technology gets up to speed, hand picking probably won't be able to compete.
They don't have to pay for it all themselves. All they need to do is subcontract the work to for them - they're the ones who buy the equipment. See the work being done in orange groves in florida. Or what the tomato industry did after the bracero program ended. Automation. Fewer workers, lower costs, higher productivity.
Scarcity leads to innovation. Innovation leads to progress. Progress leads to prosperity.
Julian simon has been proven right so many times I don't know why people even bother to go against what he said anymore.