The pattern began in the 1950s, when hugely expensive mainframe computers were first used to save correspondingly huge sums in information-intensive functions in the financial-services industry, then in accounting, payroll and inventory-control tasks in other big organisations.
Most conservatives, and Republicans, would like to reform Social Security so that workers could put a portion of their 12.4 percent Social Security payroll tax into a personal account that they own and control (under certain restrictions).
But the second you consent to a recorded interview that is going to be edited, you lose a tremendous amount of control unless the people who are doing the editing are on your payroll.