[Coffeewine]

The only advantage is that if the company is more efficient they'll be less likely to fire you because the business is failing. They'll just be firing you to eliminate a cost.

[lotsofpulp]

When a buyer shops at a lower priced store, they are also eliminating a cost. No one seems to bemoan that, but for some reason a buyer of labor qualified as “employee” eliminating costs is different than a buyer of say, a new roof shopping around or going to Costco to spend less than the full service grocery business.

[bcrosby95]

I get that they're connected, but it isn't hard to see why people bemoan classifying humans as a cost and eliminating their ability to receive food and shelter.

[nemomarx]

people complain all the time that Walmart and dollar tree drive local groceries out of business though

[immibis]

Distilling everything to pure numbers in a spreadsheet is one of the problems of this type of economy.