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I called the same thing Mechatarian. I think it could really benefit people. |
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MS found in a bottle. Inside a piece of paper, dot-matrix
printed..sadly damaged by sea water - only this sentence is
legible "...have to prise the fruit/veggies from my cold,
deactivated pincers...". |
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This is a great idea if it's actually done for real. Your tag
line: |
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"No Humans Were Exploited In The The Harvesting Of This
Fruit" |
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Then say "20% of the money saved by this process is
donated to causes that help the human condition." Then
list a bunch of humanitarian charities. |
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Alternatively "No Humans Were Given Employment In The The
Harvesting Of This Fruit". Then "20% of the money saved by
this process is donated to unemployed fruit pickers." |
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//This is a great idea if it's actually done for real// [market-
for-tagline] |
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It's going to happen anyway [MB]. |
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Low paid work that doesn't offer a wage anyone could
survive on that attracts fewer & fewer takers.. tick. |
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Seasonal (or other non-permanent occasional or temporary
work) forcing staff to seek other work in down periods that
they won't leave for a temporary job next season.. tick. |
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Simple repetitive work suitable for automation.. tick. |
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The conditions to drive automation in this area are all
there. |
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But if you're being honest [their] it's not so much an "idea"
as an
observation of existing trends over the past century or
more isn't it. |
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From hand harvesting of grains employing half a village
during harvest to combine harvesters employing a single guy
to drive the thing. |
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And now we have self driving cars, pop the tech for that
into a combine & we're there already.. they may not really
be ready to be trusted on roads yet but they look pretty
damn
ready to be trusted in a field with no people in it to me. |
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The only reason there's not as much automation for soft
fruits (& some softish veg) has been because we haven't
been able to develop machines capable of handling soft-
fruit with acceptably low levels of bruising (& thus wastage)
& I think with "AI" (still don't like that phrase, not for what
it
actually is, but it's the one the industry uses) etc that we're
pretty much there now. |
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//God does not play dice with the universe: -- Einstein//
//God does not play nice with the universe: --
theircompetitor// |
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Just read your profile, got another one for you. |
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"God does not play with the universe: -- Skewed", can you
guess why? ;p |
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//combine harvesters employing a single guy to drive//
Not even that, now... (linky) |
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//But if you're being honest [their] it's not so much an "idea"
as an observation of existing trends// |
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Aha! a reread & I realize the idea is about marketing &
(perhaps?) the social acceptance of machine picked fruit. |
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I
retract the previous comment & by way of apology offer a
bun, not sure it's entirely original though? |
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//it's a rich people thing// in the current political climate
I'd like to be known as merely comfortable. |
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A rephrasing of "eat the rich" to homogenize it with this idea
might be "Rich people meat! guaranteed 100% harvested from
rich people!" |
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Your preference is understood, I can see that being
popular in some circles. |
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Combines have been self-driving for a good while
now. They need some help dealing with rocks and
turning around for another pass sometimes, but
other than that, its largely a passive ride. |
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I once saw an image of one person-driven grain harvesting machine orchestrating an entire rob of robot harvesters. |
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I just read "nearly 500,000 children as young as six harvest 25 percent of our [US] crops" with numbers from 2012. |
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I was thinking about giving up all fruit and vegetables harvested by children and then thought something similar to: |
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Ok, so picking a fruit after a long day might feel below feeling neutral. What if you could make a child feel above neutral for a minute per picked fruit? That way for every fruit I eat children might spend 5 times as much time actually having fun as well as growing their capability through reading. At the Book Aid charity [link] they tell me they can give a child a book for 2 British Pounds, so If I eat one fruit a day, those 30 fruits a month have an equivalence of 3 children's books a month, or 6 Pounds a month. So for 6 pounds a month the children have a great time and I get to eat whatever I want, possibly even living longer from keeping fruit and vegetables in my diet. |
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