But this is just my anecdotal experience, do you have actual numbers/statistics on this?

But saying it's not worth it is like going back in time and telling a peasant to stop harvesting their crop manually because in 10 years someone will invent the tractor. I get trust of others now, which is something that is useful now. Any benefits I accumulate don't get undone.

Unless you mean they'd target me specifically... which I find very unlikely.

Unfortunately you have to learn to let go, and say, "I'll never be able to keep this all in my head", and learn to think about it in terms of of the outputs/inputs and how you can create a model capable of efficiently modeling your problem and how parameters can be nudged to get an output which is kinda shaped how you want.

Maybe some really genius savant could keep it all in their head but I doubt it, like I said it'd be like trying to understand a person by reasoning about their neural pathways.

Unions do have these real benefits for the workers who are a part of them, and these benefits come at the cost of the corporations who have to pay more and implement better practices.

This increases the cost of human labor, so when doing a purely greedy analysis of costs vs revenue, the costs go up for processes which requires human labor, which drives down the profit, disincentivizing investment or even the continuation of processes that require unionized labor. Overall, there winds up being less demand for human labor and more demand for automation.

I'm not here to speak on the truth of this, I think of it from this perspective: Information asymmetry (not understanding the opposing argument) benefits the party who has the information, so understanding their argument is necessary if you want to counter it.

I mean surely to make this claim, you aren't just making it up, surely you've done the research. In that case, what's so hard about sharing facts which you already know? I'm not asking you to put in a bunch of effort pulling financial statements and analyzing everything, I assume you've already done that because I doubt you'd make the claim otherwise.