> if she figured out how to automate it on her own, would she get any kind of reward for it? More likely she would be hauled up in front of a gang of rabid,

> if she figured out how to automate it on her own, would she get any kind of reward for it? More likely she would be hauled up in front of a gang of rabid, frightened, myopic and punitive ICT managers where she'd be reprimanded for breaking a litany of "policies". In these kinds of places you are not supposed to think, there, computers are not intelligence amplifiers or "bicycles for the mind"; they are more akin to the presses and looms in dark satanic mills.