[lrdswrk00]

Adam Smith warned extreme division of labor would result in humans that were unimaginably stupid.

After figuring out the fundamentals of physics in detail the last 100 years, what else is there except engineering replacement technology and the same old utilitarian day to day?

It’s clear that more people are educated but we’re still clinging to that division of labor meme hard, and turning grads into dumb ass data entry chimps.

[machinehermiter]

I am just not sure people are more educated at this point. For sure not kids graduating high school this year.

We have the technology that anyone can take classes at the best schools ever created by humans for free but the average person wants to watch a guy eat a 100 hotdogs for time or a video of someone else reacting to the hot dog video.

[runawaybottle]

It never occurred to me that software is making an entire subclass of data entry workers.

Type shit into our app, that’s your job.

[mattcwilson]

Not quite. (Extremely cynical take follows)

Software is reducing the amount of data being collected non-digitally and inefficiently; compressing redundancy out of the process in the form of data structures and normalization.

That’s only going to be the case long enough for ML-algorithms plus approve-button-pushers to be even more efficient.

The current wave of college educated data entry positions is a side-effect, not the terminal goal. Ultimately we’re on track to replace most degree-havers with CAPTCHAs.