Less sales but more expensive, so same income, less costs.
Also less regulations, so they can sell crappier and cheaper alternatives for the same price.
Also, lower taxes on big corporations.
And they’ll probably be able to use the private prison system to turn shoplifters into very cheap slave labour, saving on wages.

Seems like a win-win situation for Walmart, though not so much for its customers.

I don’t avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.

I don’t avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.

Streaming is bringing unskippable ads and surveillance.

Torrents bring neither and are higher quality and more user friendly.

The internet is making things worse, not better.

No, it’s not. Before the Internet you could only watch what was on, when it was on.

Now you can torrent anything you want to watch, whenever you want to watch it, and in much higher quality than TV used to be. And, again, without ads, which TV has always been riddled with.

That’s infinitely better, on multiple metrics.

first three

No, only the first one (supposing they haven’t invented the zeroth law, and that they have an adequate definition of human); the other two are to make sure robots are useful and that they don’t have to be repaired or replaced more often than necessary…