If you have a laser like focus on maximizing profit (and supposedly most businesses do), you&#x27;ve already fired everybody you can and cut all the hours you&#x27;re able to already.<p>But no, they don&#x27;t just sit there and take it. They pile money into think tanks and advertising campaigns in order to try to sway public opinion (see above).<p>One of my favorite tactics is when they pretend that robots that do minimum wage jobs all cost $minimum wage + $1 and raising wages is simply going to make them all go out and buy those magical robots.