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To: Mrs. Don-o

Can those jobs be mechanized?


180 posted on 06/26/2010 7:52:57 AM PDT by MSF BU (++)
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To: MSF BU
Yes. All the harvest jobs. And most of the other jobs: pulling brush, cultivating, irrigating, even pruning. (I didn't say "robotized," you still need people to handle the tools. But most of the decisions and most of the power --- formerly muscular effort --- can be programmed into them.)

Expensive tools & machines. So it all depends on when the price of labor prices labor right out of the job. But the machines were basically developed 40 years ago.

186 posted on 06/26/2010 3:19:15 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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