Aren't the most valuable employees the ones that hate mundane and repetitive tasks, who find a means to make their work easier? A job is of little value if the man performing it has no interest in improving it.

If I pay a man to move boxes from here to there, should I fault him for asking where the pallet jack is? Certainly not! When he was done with that, I had other things which he could be doing for me instead. I'd rather pay one man handsomely, than two adequately. A man who doesn't have a disdain for the inefficiency of the thing is the one I aim to replace.