This is Trump's Ag Secretary. Admitting that her goal is to "move the workforce towards automation": No more farmers on tractors--the few humans left will monitor the robots by computer. Oh, and deport all the Ag laborers currently harvesting our food. Until robots are ready, use other poor folks.
Did all these people say “evil villain” when asked what they wanted to be when they grow up?
Yeah cause farmers just have millions of dollars laying around to buy and AI system to run their farms. These people are idiots.
Well when the tariffs put independent farmers out of business and all the land is bought by mega Ag corps then yes
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My brother picked grapes near Fresno that summer. He did not enjoy it. I always wondered why he chose such a crappy summer job.
And how will those displaced by automation make an income? Are they then considered the able-bodied who should be working and not receiving health benefits?
We can quickly shift to robot farm workers, but clean energy wouldn't create jobs fast enough to invest in it. OK
Also this linking of automation with Medicaid recipients needing to be working. Fewer jobs because of AI and automation, and fewer unemployed people. I'm convinced the unspoken policy of this administration is population control
And concentration camp prisoners
Hmm this sounds an awful lot like Interstellar and their world wasn't doing so hot lol
It's like the people in this crowd watched a bunch of dystopian and superhero movies and cheered for the bad guys.
So true! They are cartoonishly evil!
Thats why im changing careers.paycut. yes. but thats where its going. Get into human services or taking care of robots..... We cant avoid it. China is leading the way with dark factories. They could throw us a bone govt wise but... this is reality. White collar and logistics are first to go.
It seems like we're witnessing a masterclass in "villainous" innovation. I mean, who needs human farmers when you can have robots and... other poor folks to pick up the slack?
Next step: forcibly relocate said poor people to the actual agricultural areas, since they don’t live there right now 🤦🏼♂️
Luckily, baseball caps (preferably red) are excellent protection against insecticide fumigation sprayed overhead by helicopters. No masks!
What a total bitch. An administration full of terrible people.
My God I despise these horrible subhuman scum. 🤬🤬🤬
Did I miss “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” happening IRL?
They are obviously oblivious to what happened to British farms after Brexit.
Well, should be fine with our increased research into material sciences & electronic engineering, along with attracting the best minds from all over the globe to train as engineers and... wait uh oh Well, we can just buy robots from China, unless there is some sort of tariff war happening?
she's such a moron. she will be die of old age and be buried before we have robots capable of picking ripe vegetables without bruising them.
As a disabled person, I assume this idea is seen as efficient because many of us would drop dead and they don’t have to waste resources burying bodies. We will just be left in the field to be turned into mulch. Yeah, I had that though, it IS that bad.
I had the same thought 💔
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Where do they get that able-bodied on Medicare number anyway?
Has she worked on a farm?
Hasn’t automation already been mostly responsible for the loss in farm jobs, as opposed to immigrants?
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But Medicaid patients can do the farm labor, so no problem...
Our labor force still haven’t adjusted to the loss of slaves.
This is also a tacit admission they want the death of family farms. Family farmers are barely scraping buy, there's zero chance they can be with corporate ag empowered by AI. And that will affect more than the farmers. Imagine spec homes as far as the eye can see on that old family farm land
Amen.
Good luck automating picking the crops that have to be done by hand. Or is that when the slave labor comes in?
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Absolutely insane.
Sure 'nuff. According to Assisted Living Magazine 56% of nursing home beds are on Medicaid. Let's get these old codgers up and harvesting crops!
The largest job sectors in the country is the healthcare industry. They may kill a lot of seniors off by cutting Medicaid, but they will never be able to automate changing, cleaning, and feeding of bedbound seniors with dementia.
They're already trying to: Every time you call your insurance company, you've got to fight your way through an AI maze before reaching a human. Will the robots be able to deal with real-life patients? No. But that won't stop the effort to make it happen.
That’s the insurance company! That’s not the healthcare. Insurance companies health insurance companies are an indirect form of healthcare. I’m referring to the work that Doctors, Nurses, CNA’s, physical and occupational therapists do in hospitals, rehab facilities, and long-term care facilities.
I can’t even imagine the horror for a person that is bedbound or has dementia with a machine coming at them to try to touch their private parts and clean them or give them medicine. These job could never be automated. The inhumanity and legal liability would be too costly.
You can be a farmer! I can be a farmer! We all can be farmers! Skills in driving a tractor, or farming, not required.
No, specifically bring blacks back into the fields to resume slavery, that’s the real goal here. But first, get rid of those Spanish speaking brown people so that all the Karens and Bubbas feel safe again amongst their whiteness.
Rollins' background includes general counsel and ethics advisor to Rick Perry (guffaw here). The nexus to ag business was her opposition to farm subsidies and winning the title "Cotton Queen." The cotton queen title clearly qualifies her for US Ag secretary. So, her shitbabble meets expectations.
Communism is the word for state-dictated farming mandates.
For many crops Crop picking robots that would replace workers are at the "lab testing" phase.At least 5 years from a field testable prototype and probably a decade from being able to do it faster than people. The only viable automation in farming is for corn and grains where you just strip the field
if we lived in a just and lawful country, that bitch would soon be doing community service like picking up trash on the side of the interstate..
poor people's kids, don't forget them- they've been dismantling child labor protection laws so they can get to working the fields, the mines and food processing plants at a younger age and for longer hours. trump intends on rebuilding the military when they get rid of the ones that aren't wanted..
= Slavery
Can't wait till we get our first famine and a Five Year Plan.
She’s a sick puppy
You're so naïve and telling such lies
Farming is already nearly fully mechanized to the extent possible. Pickers harvest crops for which no mechanized solutions have been found.
Forced labor. Slavery. That is what she is saying
They gave ICE 3x what even the worst actors estimate it costs for ALL federal services for undocumented immigrants.
Has anyone told her that Frump's other henchmen are saying that Americans can't all work with computers, some of them have to toil in the factories and unclog the toilets? "We're going to force you into manual labor and then eliminate manual labor." Par for their course...
This is idiotic and profoundly ignorant. Nearly all fruit and vegetable crops are harvested by hand. These are horticultural crops as opposed to agricultural crops, such as wheat and corn, that are harvested by machine. California is a major producer and source of both for the U.S.
