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    "id": 1133061,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1133061/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to comment on the issue of mechanisation of tea harvesting. Mechanisation is not a bad thing because technology increases productivity even per capita. The most mechanised economies are the ones that have the highest revenues per person. The issue is usually about timing because in an economy like ours, where a majority of the citizenry are unemployed, machines cannot come and replace human labour. Therefore, that is the only reason I support the Petition, but progressively, an economy thrives as we adopt and continue to embrace technology. The whole issue is about the fight between capital and labour, and between profits and wages. Mechanisation is a component of capital, and it increases the profit margin. We also have to be mindful of the fact that a progressive economy across the world is an economy that moves towards mechanisation. Nowadays, we see auto companies in economies like Germany and other developed economies deploying robots to do what human beings used to do. That brings me to the issue of having a common wage for everyone. We are looking into a future where economies will be predominantly mechanised. Human labour will have very little to do in those economies. However, because we are not yet there, we need to embrace and spur economies and industries that are labour intensive to provide opportunities to the many people in the rural areas to be real agents of development."
}