Specialization

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specialization

Title text: People who say we'll become one with the machines should really specify the machines they're talking about.

Votey

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Written by: Zach weinersmith

Art by: Abby howard

According to sociology, about 5% of human beings are super weird.

Average

Weird

These guys

As the human population grew, the absolute quantity of super weird people expanded.

I've just calculated a 73% Sturdier bricklaying pattern that would also require fewer bricks

Business leaders discovered surprising opportunity..

It's now possible to build a furniture facility and staff it entirely with people who experience transcendence when monitoring chair parts for defects!

Soon, regular people were less able to find work

It says here you have 25 years of experience at all levels of engine repair, but your psych profile doesn't say anything about an erotic attraction to unpaid overtime.

But-

I'm sorry.

The strange people were clustered by type,

Sometimes I lie awake at night fantasizing about a more efficient cardboard box design.

Marry me.

And more average people didn't possess the resources to have children,

I wish I'd married a real man, with pathological desire to find multiple uses for leftover industrial cellulose!

I won't have this argument again, I won't!

As the baseline human being became stranger, the outliers became ever more use useful.

It says here you have 50 years of experience in plumbing, but none of your extremities are shaped like Allen wrenches.

But-

I'm sorry.

Humanity speciated into endless forms most functional-

Automotive reparians

Chemical enginese

Computer Programmerfolk

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When the time came to merge with our tools, there was no humanity left in us to oppose the change.

We want to put some electrodes on your cerebellum so you're no longer able to stop thinking about industrial solvents.

My whole life has been leading up to this moment.

There are no machines. There is no nature. Only the drive to ever greater heights of productivity,

It's better this way.

Can you imagine what it was like being distracted by love, hope, and beauty when you really needed to focus on making smoother Beryllium spheres?

What a nightmare

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Soooo happy.

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