We told you so.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
692 points (99.0% liked)
News
24162 readers
3258 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Not many conservatives on lemmy I'm guessing.
Doesn’t matter really, people were saying it in other places I’d imagine.
There are some.
The spring season is coming... No one planting seeds to sow. That's gonna be fun. Plus hey, if you don't plant nothing, you don't need nobody to pick nothing. And we'll loose some weight? All beautiful skinny ass Americans again! Yey!
Planting is easier to automate than harvesting. Pretty sure everything has been using seed drills for a while now. Harvesting and meat packing are going to get hosed though.
Good. Agriculture shouldn't be built on the backs of almost slavery
If a sudden increase in prices is what it takes to fully automate agriculture logistics and infrastructure, then it is welcome
That's the plan...private prisons... Fill them with legal residents and brown and black citizens. Then you get self sustaining legal slavery!
Bravo! Slow clap please!
Don’t we already do that?
Make more things illegal, more prison labour.
Yeah. I’m expecting to say goodbye to weed.
load more comments
(1 replies)
While certain things can be automated the robotics technology to fully replace humans is probably still decades away.
Mostly likely they will use prison slave labor, using the same immigrants.
The tech to automate most of the stuff already exists, it's just not being used as long as abusing humans ends up being cheaper.
How do you automate the harvesting, ground work and maintenance? For example a peach tree?
When I was in the valley, 2 inches of rain basically stopped a whole day's work for entire fields. Ground machines aren't even workable on that day.
The farms actually pay alright. Migrant farm work is good work, but it's remote, and seasonal, making it impractical or impossible for most people. Usually farm workers move with the seasons to harvest and work in farms in different climate zones on rotation, these workers have been targeted by anti immigrant policy since the Clinton administration, and no one has ever worked to reduce their burden and the red tape it takes to migrate in and out of the US as these migrating workers tend to also work in Canada and Mexico. More and more, we can't harvest our own farms in CA and we import more and more food. Weakening our economy, eliminating exports, and losing power because we need other countries with less racist laws to provide our necessities. Again and again. The racist bullshit that is America harms and hinders everything.
I'm fine with prices going sky high so long as we are eliminating exploited labor.
The reality is though these folks will seek jobs elsewhere and without any social safety nets they are in for some harsh times. I can only hope they have enough friends and family here to make it.
Don't worry, it would t be like this for too long. They'll solve this "problem" by rounding up everyone brown into ~~concentration camps~~ private prisons. Then, they can hire them back out as slaves to the farms at what they were paying them before. The exploitation is about to get a lot deeper.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Oh no. What an unexpected development! Who could have predicted this?
Don't worry, I'm sure the tariffs will help bring food prices down.
Mmm, can't wait to pay $15 for produce. Fucking idiot Americans voting against their own interests.
I think the real issue is we're using undocumented immigrants to do these jobs. They don't get the same protections that legal workers get.
Absolutely, but we are well past people using logic and reason. We wouldn't be in this situation in the first place, and we could have spent time actually solving legal immigration (among many other things) instead of years of focus on her emails and all the nonsense of 2016-2020.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Didn't some morons vote for trump literally because of the egg prices?
Anyone I know who voted for trump for "economic reasons" are people I know to have the weakest grasp on what economic factors determine the price of eggs.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Wow the exact fucking thing everyone with a brain said would happen! Amazing! Depopulation is TERRIBLE for your economy and wellbeing!
But wait. There’s more. When are the tariffs coming in? My money is on next week.
So yeah… this is going quicker than I thought. I was expecting a couple of months.
Let the farms try to hire us citizens for this work. No one will take jobs that pay dollars per hour with no benefits. Let the farms raise salaries and charge Americans triple for produce. Let Americans bitch.... Then watch Trump and GOP blame the liberals for it.
Then watch Trump and GOP blame the liberals for it.
... and more than half of Americans will agree with that conclusion.
Oh they can still use inmigrants, they just have to get them into private prison work programs first.
load more comments
(3 replies)
How about if you are hiring undocumented immigrants for this work, let's not arrest the immigrants, let's arrest the owners of the farm.
Then we'll sell the farm off to someone who is willing to pay a living wage to people, and not slaves with no other options.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(19 replies)
This also highlight how many companies are taking advantage of these people in a modern form of slavery..
Funny how we never demonize the fucking companies taking advantage of these people.
load more comments
(8 replies)
load more comments
(7 replies)
What does ICE stand for? I guess its some form of border/immigration police?
Apart from that this is probably one of the things the american population will notice quite fast. But I don't think I have to tell you that trump supporters voted against their own interest.
Internal Combustion Engine.
No, eggs will be cheaper, I'm sure of it. /s
I don't understand how this is supposed to make eggs cheaper.
(obligatory FUCK ICE)
view more: next ›