Capitalism’s central feature, arguably, is that it gets better and better at taking every task of production and reducing it to simplified units of labor. “As the division of labour increases, labour is simplified,” Marx wrote in Wage Labour and Capital. “The special skill of the worker becomes worthless. He becomes transformed into a simple, monotonous productive force that does not have to use intense bodily or intellectual faculties. His labour becomes a labour that anyone can perform.”[4]
