I agree with the general idea that the insatiable hunger for greater profits comes at the expense of labor. Southwest is just another example of this. Additiona

I agree with the general idea that the insatiable hunger for greater profits comes at the expense of labor. Southwest is just another example of this. Additionally, everything ts treated as a cost center, such as IT systems. And everything is short-term thinking. But pointing to automation as a problem is misguided. Automation is great. I look forward to a future when we don't subject humans to "time off task" in an Amazon warehouse. We automate a bunch of things now that were horrible for the people who originally did them. The problem is systemic: how do we distribute the fruits of that labor? The current capitalist organization of the economy exploits labor and concentrates all the wealth in the hands of a small handful of people. The US has and produces enough wealth such that every citizen could have enough to eat, a house to live in, access to healthcare and otherwise have all their basic needs met. We, as a society, have decided we'd rather have people die in the streets, starve and use state violence in the form of withholding basic healthcare like insulin. Automation should mean that we only need to work 10-20 hours of work a week. But no. Instead we just cut the amount of workers (to the point of having no redundancy like the railroad companies) and suppress real wage increases in the name of increased profits. It really doesn't have to be this way.