this thread is actually about automation.
My point is that automation is a direct result of a business looking at ways of reducing costs.....and therefore is not thread drift.
From the start of the industrial revolution employers have sought ways to reduce the number of people needed to achieve a task by way of automation...
Someone else pointed out that perhaps like some other occupations, a job on the flight deck is headed the same way as has been the case for the last number of years.This is shown by the loss of a job for flight engineers and navigators as well as a reduction in flight crew numbers since the advent of glass cockpits and other technological advancements...
Then someone posted the comment that reducing the number of pilots by automation would not save the airlines money....which is the issue you took up.
I was simply pointing out the folly of that statement....