Re:How Not to Fight Inflation
by denton-scratch on Saturday July 16, 2022 @10:24AM
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> some miraculous automation innovations
They don't have to be miraculous. In the UK, Brexit has caused the supply of ultra-cheap East European fruit-picking labour to dry up. Fruit growers are consequently now investing in automating fruit-picking.
Automation is simply engineering; these problems don't require miraculous inventions. Anyone can build a machine to pick a strawberry. The trick is building one to a price-point, that can pick an entire polytunnel clean, without damaging the fruit too much. It's not innovation, it's just applying stuff we already know to solve practical problems.
They don't have to be miraculous. In the UK, Brexit has caused the supply of ultra-cheap East European fruit-picking labour to dry up. Fruit growers are consequently now investing in automating fruit-picking.
Automation is simply engineering; these problems don't require miraculous inventions. Anyone can build a machine to pick a strawberry. The trick is building one to a price-point, that can pick an entire polytunnel clean, without damaging the fruit too much. It's not innovation, it's just applying stuff we already know to solve practical problems.