I don't think it is 'despite' I think it is because of.

Wal-Mart, for one, has also done this for years.

It's laughable that socialism is still a bad word in the US, while the largest corporations basically rely on it. Not only do they get handouts directly from the federal government, but they pay less than poverty wages with the explicit model that their workers will supplement their incomes with government assistance.

But profits remain privatized.

The underlying purpose of AI is to allow “Wealth” to access “Skill” while also removing from the skilled people any ability to access wealth.

Of course, because none of those billions are going anywhere within sight range of their warehouse and distribution workers. What kind of imbecile thinks that investing money into a company will lead to worker wage growth?

They're advertising on the radio where I am about giving training in "coding" and "robotics" for their warehouse staff.

Don't people realise those are the jobs they're farming out to AI?

This is by design ffs

"Despite"?

They are using AI for software / AWS.

They are using wage slaves for warehouse picking and last mile delivery.

Two different things