| Mar 16, 2022 | Economy / BusinessIn corporate speak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now though, corporate wordsmiths will need a whole new thesaurus of euphemisms for the massive job cuts coming in the higher echelons of the corporate...
| May 8, 2019 | Economy / BusinessCorporate bosses don’t talk about it in public, but among themselves — psssst — they whisper excitedly about implementing a transformative “AI agenda” across our economy. AI stands for artificial intelligence, the rapidly advancing digital technology of creating...
| Mar 13, 2019 | Economy / Business|Food / FarmingHow’re you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen… Angus? Not the cattle breed, but the 1,000-pound “farmer of the future.” Angus is a robot, toiling away on an indoor hydroponic farm that’s soilless as well as soulless. Programmed by a...
| Dec 19, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedA few weeks ago, I cringed when I saw this headline at a popular progressive website: “See How Well the GOP Tax Scam Is Creating Jobs? Walmart Announces Plans for 360 Robot Janitors.” It’s the same way I’ve cringed when conservative scolds taunt fast...
