If the supply of cheap workers is restricted and the cost of employing people rises, firms will have a greater incentive to boost spending on new labour-saving equipment.
This feels very much like that talk about the magical technology that will make border checks unnecessary. Yes, in the economist dream world labour saving devices just appear if there is investment but in reality certain types of fruit are very delicate and hard to pick automatically and any kind of development there would certainly not be limited to just the UK and hospitality also has many tasks that are hard to automate.
Border checks are unnecessary, we didn’t do them before, they’re just non tariff protectionist barriers
Magical technology? Robotic fruit pickers are in development, I doubt they’ll be widely used. It’s easier just to automate the routine stuff to increase productivity. Fruit picking is a high skill job
This feels very much like that talk about the magical technology that will make border checks unnecessary. Yes, in the economist dream world labour saving devices just appear if there is investment but in reality certain types of fruit are very delicate and hard to pick automatically and any kind of development there would certainly not be limited to just the UK and hospitality also has many tasks that are hard to automate.
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UK is importing record numbers of health and social care professionals. No one’s automating nurses and carers.
General practitioners, maybe. AI can diagnose skin cancer faster and far more efficiently already, and with cancer, early diagnosis is key.
Border checks are unnecessary, we didn’t do them before, they’re just non tariff protectionist barriers
Magical technology? Robotic fruit pickers are in development, I doubt they’ll be widely used. It’s easier just to automate the routine stuff to increase productivity. Fruit picking is a high skill job
https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/23454601.formula-one-engineering-norfolk-fruit-farm-robotics-trial/