alt Hacker NewsNot he automation, but the way... we gone farther since agricultural and energy domestication... but the profit as main director is less than suboptimal, it is tragical. Having known about many accidents in complex systems is a madness to see things at this point in the most complex of systems that is society.
Profit is what drives the survival of the firm to be fair
However there are tasteful ways of doing it. And google and meta in particular certainly are not.