off the top of my head I'd guess the Gallagher case

Im speaking of the past, like in the 20's

Oh yeah, that Manning dude.

well no fucking shit, in the 20s you had basic bitch manual operated machines

fast food is def gonna keep automating as min wage increases

oh the kid who reported on civi killings from US military drone strikes?

Oil companies are already lowering gas prices. Indirectly. The shale revolution has altered the entire crack chain so lite ends (like gas) have become cheaper because shale produces more of them.

Corporations won't automate all our jobs away if it leaves the citizenry with no income to spend on their goods

electronic computation was a non-ambulatory swimming sperm is someone's brain testicles

you assume corporations have any forethought @calman21

they do

corporations are run by people, and people aren't machines

You mean the automotive industry that automated away their assembly line?

You don't become a successful megacorp without taking the long view. That said, they are by no means immune to short-term impulsiveness.

people are the cogs in the corporate machine, they know their overall mission. create wealth

for good or ill

what about corporations that make millions doing immoral practices? Like Nestle and funding slavery in cocoa fields

New Coke was one example.

They are taking the long view, Tea. They're just being very very shitty about it.

We automated away several million manufacturing jobs

publicly owned and traded corps do not care about consequences

Thats part of WHY trump was elected

tbh generations don't care about consequences. "Won't affect me" is what I hear a lot of people state

"I won't be alive when it ruins the Earth"

I need to see more substantive proof that we automated our jobs away than andrew yang stating such, he is the only person I have seen who says that; it makes more sense to me that we have lost factory work to China because they have been undercutting our labor costs with their slave labor

yes, and he's done absolutely nothing to revive, say, steel jobs

automobile assembly line is very easy to research

YEs and computers eliminated millions of clerical jobs and the tractor eliminated millions of agriculture jobs. I am certain that the wheel eliminated basket-hauling jobs.....

also, what about the people that physically connected telephone connections? Tele-operators or whatever they were called

tech always replaces human workers, for better or for worse

Taking the long view doesn't mean one is taking responsibility for one's actions. It can just as easily apply to a very limited goal, like making as much cold, hard cash as possible over a long period of time.

@TeeTotaler you assume a lot about people who head corporations

telephone wire, holy fuck, that's going back aways

trump bad

it's just an example

give me money

Basically, the business model of the British East India Company.

there wasn't even a telephone connection from Berlin to Potsdam until after the first world war

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/24/a-study-finds-nearly-half-of-jobs-are-vulnerable-to-automation

And I think he has done something to bring back steel by de-regulating energy. It takes a fuckton of energy to run an industrial kiln. Lower energy costs make steel manufacture more viable.

and I assume more about publicly owned corps @calman21