Direct result of minimum wage, obamacare and union organizing. Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union campaigning ‘for the good of farm workers’, made it ‘economical’ to use tomato picking machines.
Yep. It's called "pricing oneself out of the market" and then complaining about "the market" and the "capitalist greed" and the "banksters" and whoever/whatever else the OWC crowd come up with...
The fear of automation and increase in productivity has been as old as Ned Ludd (and the Luddites).