Capitalism sucks because employees are considered a cost to be minimized whereas owners are considered a cost to be maximized. Corporations struggle to reduce their costs, especially their costs for human labor. Machines don’t sue their employers, so all things being equal (as economists love to say), employers prefer machine performance to human performance. Hiring More

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