[criddell]

> So farmers don't matter, just like other workers who lose their jobs to automation.

Nobody said that and I can't believe you would think anybody actually sees the world like that. I would hope that we can find more meaningful ways for people to spend their days than doing things that can be better accomplished via machinery. Otherwise we really are just paying one group to break windows so another group can be paid to fix them and that's not good for anybody.

[rfrank]

Automating people's jobs away without meaningful replacements is how regions get decimated, and you end up with very large swaths of very angry people without much to lose.

[criddell]

True and nobody is really arguing that point.

Producers should be looking for ways to produce more efficiently. Governments should be working on the social problems. We all have a part to play in making our economy work well.

[rfrank]

> True and nobody is really arguing that point.

Or providing solutions, just automating their jobs away.

Ignore the social repercussions or try and shift responsibility for who should help them all you want, I suggest it is a very unwise thing to do.