>but in many cases there may be a series of tasks, dependent on each other, some of which require a lot of laborers and some that don't. You say that as though

>but in many cases there may be a series of tasks, dependent on each other, some of which require a lot of laborers and some that don't. You say that as though the policies and procedures by which worn is done haven't intentionally been made inefficient to create work for the workers. I once sat on a train for 3hr waiting for a railroad employee to show up with a chainsaw and cut a downed tree of the track. There was another employee in a service truck equipped for brush clearing a couple miles away at the station waiting for his wife who was stuck on the same train. He couldn't clock in and deal with the downed tree, because rules. This story is fairly well known among people who ride that rail line so some here may recognize it.