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by fny 1887 days ago
You can call people "sanitation engineers", "sandwich artists", or whatever (these are real titles by the way) and for as long as you treat them as replaceable, interchangeable, and cheap, they will be cogs.

Also are "production worker", "factory worker", "shipping clerk", or "driver" any better or worse than "human lambda"?

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I was a "Dish Machine Operator" for a few months, and it actually did make me feel cooler than being a "Dishwasher".

"Human Lambda" being the name of the company, perhaps the workers are "Lambda Operators".

Horses for courses; my favorite job title ever was as a "3602 Clerk." Such an anonymous title for such a crazy job.