idealist middle management layer. Oh, they understand the broader notion that if they stopped paying people to do data entry, they’d save money. But they’re completely out of touch with the implementation. At the behest of the upper layers of the organization, we programmers have been dutifully automating legions of pragmatists out of jobs. The aforementioned data entry jobs are ephemeral and increasingly rare. Many factory jobs and manual labor tasks have gone the way of the dodo. And in coming years, more pragmatist jobs will follow suit: driving trucks, waiting tables, working as cashiers,
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