[ExI] Help with tending crops

Dan TheBookMan danust2012 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 02:04:12 UTC 2015


On Oct 6, 2558 BE, at 6:36 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> As this becomes more widely known and affordable in US farms, it will be interesting to witness the effect on immigration.
> 
> Turning away undocumented cheap labor when it is needed to keep food prices down is one thing.

I believe current agriculture policies probably do much to raise prices on average.

> But once even cheaper robotic labor takes over...
> 
> Same thing with other industries that currently employ a large enough number of illegal immigrants to apply political pressure against sealing the borders.

I reckon a bad consequence could of be fostering further sealing of borders. (Not just of the US, but of other nations as well. US-Americans aren't the only folks with xenophobic tendencies. I think such are pretty common across the globe.) Though the demand would be lower for some farm labor, so it might simply cause the issue to be of less concern.

Then again, I feel immigration is an issue more because of anti-foreign bias than because of economic competition. (Were it mostly the latter, there'd be louder calls for regulating internal migration, IMO.)

Regards,

Dan
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