But anyone could transition from farmer/craftsman to factory worker. It needed less skills to repeat a small set of gestures all day long for months and years o

But anyone could transition from farmer/craftsman to factory worker. It needed less skills to repeat a small set of gestures all day long for months and years on an assembly line (being a cog in a machine) than were needed by the craftsman who excelled in his craft (highly skilled in one domain) and by the farmer who had to know and be able to do a bit of everything (not deep, but wide skills). But for the current/next transition...