> Harvesting in agriculture is an interesting place to look at how competitive exploited human labor can be compared to machine automation.
Any business were machines having taking over, yet, is an example of that.
Any business were machines having taking over, yet, is an example of that.
There is much more incentive to turn an $80K a year programming position into a $30K a year lower skilled position using point and click tools to achieve the same task as the margin differences are much much higher.
EDIT: You must remember that machine automation is not infinitely and immediately scalable the way software automation is. With agriculture, automation providers can only manufacture enough to meet current demand and cannot simply lower prices increase volume and market share because they have real raw material floors to their costs.