John McBride on Mythryl: “And like the harms caused by the collapse of skilled physical labor…”

And like the harms caused by the collapse of skilled physical labor and explosion in unfettered capitalist growth (child labor, factory slums, extremely dangerous working conditions), history will remember the collapse of knowledge work for similar harms (depression, high unemployment, etc.)

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social

Industrialization of knowledge work is going to be as disruptive a shift as industrialization of physical labor was. As then, once craft-driven fields are under pressure to produce greater volumes of product using machines while using less of the craft that made the work interesting & meaningful.

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