Of course they can do what they want. But like I just said to the other guy, mass unemployment is just one aspect of the direction this world is going in. There's a lot more to it than that. The whole system is going to eventually change, if they get their way. That means you will no longer have the freedom, rights and privacy that you have taken for granted. This is not merely about corporations or "people" who are pursuing what is best for their company. It's about a very small number of powerful people who want to change the whole world, and not in a good way. Like I said to the other guy, look into technocracy. Here, I'll give you a quote, from one of the founders of technocracy:
“As far as Technocracy's ideas are concerned, we're so far left that we make Communism look bourgeois.”
— Howard Scott, Technocracy Inc. Founder
Look, I get that you guys are defending all this stuff because you're knee-jerkingly defending Trump. But what is coming eventually is NOT a conservative or capitalist or free market system, at all. It's an unfree system that is not good for any of us. This is what many mainstream folks still don't realize.