A society could reasonably elect that firings must be reviewed and signed off by a human. In real life, there are instances of hard working people who through s

A society could reasonably elect that firings must be reviewed and signed off by a human. In real life, there are instances of hard working people who through some bad luck end up having to do manual work into their 70’s. They haul ass and have a high work ethic, but can’t keep up with workers who are 50 years younger. They don’t meet quotas in terms of productivity, but usually management is happy to keep them on. Sure, you could automate compassion by formulating a metric that keeps these people, but let’s be honest, Amazon is not doing that. So a reasonable society might say that a human must be part of the process in order to offer “humane” relief for extenuating circumstances, or at least present an opportunity for that. It’s kind of fucked if Amazon realized they can save money by removing human judgement from the loop because humans are not universally in dispossession of a heart or compassionate facility.