> dairy farmer who has moved toward robotic milking to avoid the labor problem.
This is EXACTLY the result that labor policy in this country should be aiming for. Substitution of machinery for manual labor.
I emphatically disagree with you.
Manual Labor builds strength and conviction of character required to have a civil, polite society.
85% of the kids going to college have NO BUSINESS being there... every Doctor, Lawyer, Politician, Engineer, Computer Programmer, and what have you should spend their formative years digging ditches and breaking big rocks into little rocks with a sledgehammer.
Hell, most of the Politicians can just throw on some orange jumpsuits and leg shackles and get started RIGHT NOW.