> Some higher-level jobs like engineer can amplify the value creation by designing new tools for the job, but the value itself still stems from the actions of those manual labourers.
Who is creating the value, the one that is writing the instruction or the one that is following blindly the instructions? [In real life it's more complicated because the designers have feedback from the operators and also because usually the instructions are underspecified.]
> Some higher-level jobs like engineer can amplify the value creation by designing new tools for the job, but the value itself still stems from the actions of those manual labourers.
This is a nice variation of the Chinese Room argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Who is creating the value, the one that is writing the instruction or the one that is following blindly the instructions? [In real life it's more complicated because the designers have feedback from the operators and also because usually the instructions are underspecified.]