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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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We grow more food than our farming labor can harvest.
What the hell else should we do to bring it in?
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Realistically? Beyond a correction in the wage rates for agricultural labor you'd see some shift in the relative proportions of crops being grown. Some require a lot more manhours than others. Most of the major staples go well with mechanization but I suspect it'd reduce the variety of cheaply-available foods back to norms more typical of the 1940's or 50's when labor costs were a much more limiting factor than they are today. Might also see the U.S. exporting less foodstuffs with associated destabilization in some other regions of the world. It rapidly turns into a messy proposition.
Without going to that extreme, I'd like to see migrant or immigrant workers at least extended good labor protections. They're too often treated deplorably.
Danth