[algernonpj]

You’re right, but there’s another angle. Somewhere between $5 and $10 and hour it probably makes sense for the farmer to say to hell with it and automate everything.

So the illegals are not taking jobs from mythical American farm laborers, but from skilled American tradesmen working for Caterpillar and International Harvester.

And anticipating the next argument, Oh yes, all of these jobs can be automated. If we can automate cotton picking, we can automate whatever this is...

Beautiful! You went right around the false alternatives.

I can remember a time. when it was theorized that invested capital was going to make people so productive, that they could work 3 -4 day weeks, have more buying power and investors would be getting a greater return.

We seem to have reverted to medieval thinking, replacing increases in productivity with cheap serf / neo-slave labor, creating an uber rich elite and massive serf population.

[Old Student]

“We seem to have reverted to medieval thinking, replacing increases in productivity with cheap serf / neo-slave labor, creating an uber rich elite and massive serf population.”

Look up “latifundia” and their effect on the Romans.