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> Robots reduced the perceived meaningfulness of jobs across the board, irrespective of age, gender, skills and the type of work. In theory, machines can free u
by candiddevmike 2y ago
> Robots reduced the perceived meaningfulness of jobs across the board, irrespective of age, gender, skills and the type of work. In theory, machines can free up time for more interesting tasks; in practice, they seem to have had the opposite effect.
Because instead of moving us towards a <20 hours work week, it's "do more with less people" instead.
- coliveira 2y agoJust like in the old times every engineer would have a secretary to do mundane work. Nowadays we have computers but lost secretaries, so we are forced to do even more mundane works by ourselves, with the excuse that the computer makes it faster.