• Peppycito
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    14 hours ago

    Plus it’s been a race to remove skill from labour for 200 years. Journeymen are now technicians. Technicians are now operators.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      True. A key aspect of industrialization is that skilled labor is replaced by machines everyone can handle. It takes more energy but less skill to make concrete than working with stone so concrete houses are the way of the future (as in the future of the past, you get it)