I guess we in tech have seen this coming for the past oh.. 25 years? Now it is really starting to hit home. Another big thing that drives automation is the st

I guess we in tech have seen this coming for the past oh.. 25 years? Now it is really starting to hit home. Another big thing that drives automation is the stock market. The stock market provides a bunch of money to companies that can show earnings growth. Used to be you could just expand globally. Well, all the big brands have done that now. So the next step is to cut costs. How? Automate. Without the stock market this might also happen but at a slower pace.