Some of you may remember the sketch from the TV comedy, Not the Nine O’Clock News, featuring a car plant assembly line where everyone was called Bob – hand built by Roberts was the tagline.
Today, you are less likely to see a bunch of Roberts on an assembly line where there is barely a human to be seen except the lonely one staring at a computer screen.
This isn’t a recent change to working habits.
In the late 18th century, social reformer and academic, Jeremy Bentham, sketched out…
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