That’s basically the plot of Stardew Valley. Programmers yearn for the fields.

I don't think Stardew Valley prepares you for the sweltering heat of performing manual labor in the Central Valley.

Save us Yoba!

>Reduced demand in tech due to constraints of capital

That's it, really. All the "hiring" money is being spent on building data centers, at least in the US tech field. Better hope AGI is really around the corner, or that's a lot of money chasing nothing that could have been put to productive use.

> just ship 100k software developers from the bay to the central valley and it just work

But you could pitch a startup idea to replace those workers with agricultural robotics and collect some of that sweet AI venture capital!

Do you have any idea of how much money has gone into this already? Agriculture is an awful job. It's at the top of the list of jobs we would love to completely automate.

It turns out it's a hard problem because computer vision is hard, and we've had a lot of agtech investment already.