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> An analogy would be breaking down the tasks performed by a doctor into chunks that could be done in isolation by minimum wage workers.

Which would be amazingly hard for all the same reasons writing a program to replace a doctor would be amazingly hard.

In a company like Walmart, which is entirely predicated on the existence of interchangeable minimum-wage workers, the main component they can't replace is the process all those workers follow which results in a working store. That's the software run by all the human hardware.



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