Industrializing knowledge work will disrupt like industrializing manual labor did
latticecut · x · 2026-09-22
The author argues that industrializing knowledge work will be as disruptive as industrializing manual labor: craft professions will again be forced into high-volume, uniform output using less of the skill that made the work worth doing. History rhymes.
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