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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford OP 2 Sep \ parent \ on: The Blue-Collar Boom: AI's Impact on the Workforce econ
I live in an area where agriculture is the dominate industry. I will say this. The effects of the increase in the minimum wage and more recently deportations has been increased use of machines to do the jobs of low skill labor. We are seeing it happen in fast food as well. The state is raising the floor and because they can't just arbitrarily set the value of work by decreeing it machines are becoming for viable for businesses.
Farmers are struggling to find laborers as they lose immigrant workers. Guess what, they are finding it hard to find people willing to do many of these jobs. Its interesting to observe as someone largely disconnected from it.
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Yeah, but of course this leads to higher costs which increases prices. The thing many in this area that are rabid pro farming and pro American is that most of these crops are exported. That's fine but they are just a business. It's not a bad business but it's a business. I don't like the moralizing of an industry as good for its type. They sell their crops for money. No shame in that but it's not something more noble than building a car for example.
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