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Re:New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human w... by mwill on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:50PM (#18132160)
Theoretically those jobs would be pushed into distribution, which the article seems to hint at, large amount of small automated farms spread out, rather than small amount of large farms concentrated, could mean more jobs on the middle and tail end of the supply chain.

Tbh, I have my doubts it would play out like that, but it does seem they're conscious of it, at the very least.

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Re:New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human w... by cylentwolf on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:14PM (#18132411)
When I thought about this, the next part of the chain to be automated will be automated trucks. So then we need automated distribution from the trucks to the stores. The stores already have self check out. So the whole food chain for plants will not need a human involved.
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Re:New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human w... by throwaway2048 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:39PM (#18132653)
Nobody automates so they can spend the same amount on labor.
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