When did being a trained auto mechanic become a 'useless job'? It's easy to hand waive away all this work as bullshit, but so is most of software development. Y

When did being a trained auto mechanic become a 'useless job'? It's easy to hand waive away all this work as bullshit, but so is most of software development. Yes we want to figure out how to make it more productive, but completely eliminating jobs and making people unemployed has a huge negative cost. When you have someone working FT they are growing their productivity through experience, plus training, plus any process improvements. If they are unemployed, their productivity is atrophying away. The difference between slowly transitioning from one role to another and just getting cast aside as unemployed is profound.