Everyone should have a
pointless factory job at least once for a couple
months. For
character.
You begin to appreciate just how much work must go into the creation of just one car or cell phone when you have these jobs. Things become more real, because the Cell Phones are no longer Miracles of the Modern Age. They become tangible. The result of potential energy turning into kinetic energy and producing work, aka The Things You Buy.
We've become really detached from what's making the world work. Our lives are already mediated. We need to experience the changing of things from raw materials to finished product to help us appreciate it more. Do you appreciate the computer you use because it simply helps you get work done? Or do you realize the work that went into making it?
If we make robots to do the work, who will make the robots?