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11. as a side note, transient fruit/veg pickers will only be necessary until----

Sat Jul 4, 2026, 05:09 PM

Jul 4

the factory farms are able to invent fruit picking machines that cost less than the cheap foreign labor,,,, as soon as they have a machine to do the job cheaper (no matter what the cost of the machine is) goodbye the need for the cheap ?mexican? labor,,, you are next,,, they are already eliminating staff in retail stores, (cashiers)-(robot floor sweepers)(stock people who used to affix price labels) etc and YOU are assisting them by not insisting upon human attendants....
Ray-gun shifted us from a manufacturing economy to a service economy,,, we no longer make anything here,, your spouse now has to work to keep up with the inflation/bills... and now it's just an AI programmer between you and your job.... hell, you cannot even post anything here without a look over from the spell check bot to decide if you made a typing error

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Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots [View all] Omaha Steve Jul 4 OP

Where do the workers go? Norrrm Jul 4 #1

And then who buys these expensive new EVs? Not the laid-off workers. erronis Jul 4 #8

If people had been buying them in enough numbers, there might not have been any layoffs to begin with. MichMan Jul 4 #14

50 "cobots" couldn't replace 1000 people MichMan Jul 4 #2

1,000 workers that can ACTUALLY afford what is built at that plant shit canned Bengus81 Jul 4 #3

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They just need the government to afford the vehicles. Or at least print the money for it. OC375 Jul 4 #6

China is not going to buy US-made EVs. They are making better models at one-third the price. erronis Jul 4 #9

Not yet. Things can change. OC375 Jul 4 #10

The Hamtramck GM plant makes full size large EV pickups MichMan Jul 5 #17

So it's at least largely hyperbole. Igel Jul 6 #20

Just a matter of time before they come for your job. OC375 Jul 4 #4

I predict GM will have to backtrack on this iemanja Jul 4 #7

It depends on how strong the union's contract is. LudwigPastorius Jul 4 #16

as a side note, transient fruit/veg pickers will only be necessary until---- gfwzig Jul 4 #11

So the consumer will now pay less...? Grins Jul 4 #12

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