[sleight42]

> Knowledge workers hold a different relationship to their labor than manufacturing workers did. For a cognitive professional, expertise is not only an activity. It is a large part of the self.

Really? The way a knowledge worker feels about their labor is different than a manufacturing worker? They don't or can't have similar pride in their labor? In their skills?

This is some seriously self-aggrandizing bullshit. Touch some grass.

[defgeneric]

> Earlier automation targeted physical and manual labor, where a worker’s identity was at least partly separable from the output. A welder is not the weld.

It comes through even worse in this later sentence, which at the very least tells you the writer has never met a welder.

[defrost]

Yeah, it has to be said, welding is as much about spitting metal in a line as programming is about tapping keys.