• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    You aren’t using the dockworker’s services either. Work changes in time. There are still people who sew by hand too, but you can also buy affordable clothes if you are poor.

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      i do though. i order packages and the dockworkers take them off of the ship and load them onto local transport. i take a ferry and the dockworkers make sure the ship is securely tied off before i dinembark.

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        In the time before containerization a lot of people used to be dock workers. Today virtually noone is a dockworker anymore. That’s what I was referring to.

        That’s a large part of how the world became as connected as it is today.

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          yeah but automating jobs with a high risk of injury and guaranteed fatigue damage is one thing. nobody was ever a dockworker as a hobby.