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Now that organic has been done to death, gluten free, and
carbon neutral have been exploited to the fullest, it's time to
take advantage of the latest social upheavals and their impact
on the labor market in placing product.
Collected Solely by Robots! will test the attractiveness of
fruits
and vegetables efficiently collected without the back
breaking exploitation of seasonal pickers
Collected Solely by Humans! will test the attractiveness of
fruits and vegetables lovingly collected by hand in this age of
heartless machines.
How about them apples
https://www.realcle...farming_103628.html
[theircompetitor, Feb 20 2019]
Autonomous Combine Harvester
https://www.markets...er-in-Dec-26776074/
They're coming... [neutrinos_shadow, Feb 20 2019]
A homage to Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
https://www.youtube...watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU
[Skewed, Feb 20 2019]
Time to replace people harvesting food with better machines
https://www.theatla...t-your-food/254853/
Although the article has lots of propaganda it says that around 2012 "nearly 500,000 children as young as six harvest 25 percent of our crops" " [beanangel, Mar 07 2019]
A charity that gives global children the fun and growth of reading for $2 a book
https://bookaid.org/
[beanangel, Mar 15 2019]
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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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