True, to the extent possible machines have already replaced people in other ways I don’t see how a machine could replace people in terms of picking certain crops
Lot of tomatoes grown near me for Red Gold
It still takes a lot of labor for growing the plants in a nursery and planting them
They then have to hand pick the first ones as they ripen and come back later with mechanical harvesting, which still takes hands on for sorting out bad or still green ones
Nice ones go to the stand, regular ones go to the store, damaged to the mill to be turned into cider.
You can shake them off the tree but they will all be bruised and you can not sell a bruised apple for fifty cents no matter how you polish it. With cider by the time you pay for press time and the bottles you are just about breaking even.