For the record, I don't think of you as a stealing automation engineer. You perform a valued service for an appreciative employer. (My employer, meantime, provi

For the record, I don't think of you as a stealing automation engineer. You perform a valued service for an appreciative employer. (My employer, meantime, provides valued services for just such employers, maybe even yours.) But your employers take home very large annual bonuses while contributing what, exactly, to society? If they and their sub-ms competitors did not do it, would anyone miss it? Suppose, e.g., trades did not register until 1000ms after entry? Rhetorical questions.