Also the replacement of craftsmanship with mass produced lower quality output possible for workers with less training and partial understanding to produce.

Processes are more efficient, machines are faster, workers are easily replaceable. The quality and complexity of the product is limited by these requirements.

>Never thought We'd actually relate to the industrial workers this way.

Programmers were always labor.

A few got wild salaries and perks and deluded themselves into thinking they stood with the elites but as far as their employers were concerned they were no different than assembly line workers or dish washers.