Quotation of the Day…

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… is from Martin Wolf’s November 12, 2024 Financial Times column titled “Manufacturing fetishism is destined to fail” (original emphasis):

In manufacturing, tasks are repetitive and must be done precisely in a controlled environment. This is perfect for robots. The overwhelming probability then is that in a few decades nobody will work on a production line. In some ways, that is a pity. But the work was also dehumanising. Surely, we can do better than hanker nostalgically for this inescapably vanishing past.