[DiscourseFan]

repeating what user u/randomdata said already,

> - they want to save money training the employees,

> - they want to save money doing research (let rather the taxpayer pay for the research).

means they want to offload costs to the public in order to increase profits, which is what I said above.

[aleph_minus_one]

Offloading costs is a different thing than making employees more replaceable.

[DiscourseFan]

Employees are more expensive because they are less replaceable. A company must invest a certain amount of money into labor to make a profit; however, if that company learns it can invest less money into endeavours to make the same profit, then it can decrease the amount invested into labor. The only way to do so is to create some sort of technology, or social relation, that makes the price of individual workers cheaper. Thus, any reduction of cost of labor that increases profit is something that makes employees more replaceable.