> Assembly line work might be less intellectually appealing to us, but for a lot of people it is a complex cognitive task. If you were to talk to a every day as

> Assembly line work might be less intellectually appealing to us, but for a lot of people it is a complex cognitive task. If you were to talk to a every day assembly worker of an iPhone, he would find assembling complex circuitry pretty intellectually challenging. I doubt that. The way you make an assembly line efficient is by breaking down complex tasks into super-simple subtasks. Each person does one tiny thing, and does it over and over until the actions are automatic - you could practically do it in your sleep. If any task requires "intellectual challenge", you're doing something wrong; that is a bug in your assembly process that you should fix if you want a highly reliable, replicable result.