Will someone who works at Amazon and reads HN please ask Jeff Bezos to tell the Washington Post to grow out of this smartass fake journalism? Most people are well aware that agribusiness depends heavily on automation. Most people are equally well aware that it's a lot easier to drive around a field when you are the only thing in it than to drive on a public road. That's why you only need a driving license for the latter case.
The entire article is one giant straw man fallacy.
> Most people are well aware that agribusiness depends heavily on automation.
While it doesn't necessarily invalidate your criticism, this couldn't be less true. Most people in the Washington Post's reader base have exactly zero awareness of agriculture, full stop. Food comes in a box they buy at the supermarket, and that's the extent of their knowledge. If they have any thoughts beyond that, it's probably either an understanding of farming they got from a quaint children's book, or some kind of poorly-reasoned Monsanto/GMO FUD they heard at a fashionable dinner party. The idea that they know what kind of ag equipment is on the market, what it does, how it works, or what it costs is ludicrous.
The entire article is one giant straw man fallacy.