At Amazon, coders' jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
Since at least the industrial revolution, workers have worried that machines would replace them.
But when technology transformed auto-making, meatpacking and even secretarial work, the response typically wasn't to slash jobs and reduce the number of workers. It was to 'degrade' the jobs, breaking them into simpler tasks to be performed over and over at a rapid clip. Small shops of skilled mechanics gave way to hundreds of workers spread across an assembly line. The personal secretary gave way to pools of typists and data-entry clerks.
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