Comment by utopiah

> There's no amount of skill/efficiency/productivity a human worker can reach that will make employers give up on the dream of one day replacing them with software.

I agree... but also this is so wrong it's painful. If you do have a good worker, they don't cost money, they MAKE money. Of course if you as the CEO think you are smart enough to cover everything and anybody but you is just wasting money, then that doesn't work and optimizing makes sense. Corporations have grown in size to be mindless heartless engine, literally, and that comes at the heavy price of ... not thinking, just an automaton with a single goal, growing profit, leading to an even more inhumane setup within which removing costly humans makes perfect sense.