@nixCraft this is just how capitalism operates. maximally optimizing work is the very thing that set it apart from the old ways of organizing society. what we are seeing now happening with IT workers is the same thing that happened with artisans and craftspeople of the older days: replaced by factories and highly specialized workers (specialized in the sense that any one of them can, for example, make a shoelace, or a strap, but none of them know how to make the entire shoe)