I power up all my steem earnings and put them right back to use earning even more thru curation and earning for delegating. I believe the more non traditional investments I make now the better off I'll be in the years to come.

I've seen firsthand the replacement of labor by automation, in fact it is my job. I am a mechanical design engineer and part of my job is to do cost analysis on the ROI of automating instead of letting a person do assembly line work. I also design machines to do jobs that are too dangerous or not ergonomically friendly to humans. I have mixed feelings about it. But that's how I make my living and put a roof over my family's heads. I feel like I've sold my soul to the devil. And you're right, corporations don't give a damn about people. i know that all too well from the decade I've spent in corporate America. The restaurant jobs I've held before I got my engineering degree had more caring management sometimes than the ones I work for now. And that's pretty shocking to me.

These workers at my facility are also mistreated by the company. Many work 10-12 hours a day 7 days a week indefinitely. Management claims it's too expensive to hire a third and fourth team so the people can work normal work weeks (40-50 hours). I find that to be horse sh**. These people working 80 hour weeks make good money but what kind of life is that? I fall victim to the overtime at times too and I'm salaried so I get screwed. I don't get paid for my OT. I only earn vacation days after I've worked two 50 hour weeks in a row (anything over 100 hours in two weeks and I start accruing PTO. So 50 hours a week is where I start earning extra.