That's the big looming doomsday issue regardless of farm or dairy size. Automation is advancing much more rapidly than in the past and we are rapidly approaching a point where there simply will not be jobs for a large percentage of the population.
Note the (unstable) growth of the service and entertainment sectors - Those "unnecessary" jobs are masking the loss of many "necessary" jobs and they will disappear rapidly as those necessary jobs that are providing the income to pay for the services and entertainment are replaced with automation. When faced with paying for food or entertainment the food will always win.
There is no turning back the tide on this, only poor stopgap measures. What we need to seriously be debating on a global scale is exactly how can societies be restructured to be stable when having a job is no longer the norm.
There are no easy answers and there are a few examples to show pitfalls of such a society i.e. small ME countries where the citizens do not work and receive funds from oil wealth. The jobs in those countries are currently done by imported humans who are treated worse than most machines.
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