The whole film was dripping-wet with satire, pointing out flaws in the society of the US and Detroit in particular (at the time). OP’s remark is just one of many such beats in the film. We’re supposed to be both entertained but also moved to do something about how f–ed the situation outside the theatre has become.
Wasn’t the point that the actual robots produced by the corp that made him were unwanted and mistrusted by the public, so they took an almost dead cop and rebuilt him as a human looking robot to popularize the tech?
They didn’t invest in him they just bought a corpse for marketing purposes and made it a robot with a face.
I think OCP was trying to win private policing contracts in other cities. If they could offer robocops, a LEO who produced measurable better results over traditional police departments they could get more contracts.
So it wasn’t really an investment in a worker it was a tech demonstration.
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