Baloney production IS automated
Baloney. Automation would be further along by now had not cheap foreign labor and bad working conditions been instituted to cut against the savings. Doesn’t take too long for people to get good at a repetitive task. Shorter shifts could well make people more productive. (Just as, for example, shorter call center shifts often do.)
Harvesting labor itself is a very small portion of overall food costs.
Even if greedy entitled vegetable farmers ( the new slavers/human traffickers ) paid Americans $20 or $30/hr the cost at the supermarket would hardly budge up at all. Labor is not much of the TOTAL per unit cost at retail.
Baloney production IS automated
jokes aside - yes, if pickers are banned in favor of Americans, then automation will get a boost. But then that means less jobs.
Also, automation will take time - for this season you’ll just have people.
And the people will take time to get good at a repetitive task - look at your average lazy Joe who works a desk job. It’d take months. The picking season is 4 months. If Joe Blow needs 2 months to be as good as Jose Bloze, that means the farmer will need more Joe Blows initially.
jokes aside - yes, if pickers are banned in favor of Americans, then automation will get a boost. But then that means less jobs.
Also, automation will take time - for this season you’ll just have people.
And the people will take time to get good at a repetitive task - look at your average lazy Joe who works a desk job. It’d take months. The picking season is 4 months. If Joe Blow needs 2 months to be as good as Jose Bloze, that means the farmer will need more Joe Blows initially.