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When technology turns humans into cogs

I work at an Amazon warehouse and the scanner tells me I have eleven seconds to get to the next item and I feel like I am becoming a machine myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Modern efficiency systems reduce human beings to optimized units of production, severing the connection between worker and meaningful labor.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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