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I think about this kind of thing often. I feel like we lost something in trying to automate or innovate past simple but essential jobs
Not only that. My dad had an office job with much higher stakes and salary than me, and it's insane comparing my work load and intensity to what he had.
Starting with the fact that everyone at his company took 15 minute smoke breaks every hour and started drinking at lunch.
And to run a program on the computer you had to physically walk to the computer in the basement with a box full of punch cards and feed them to it.