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Back in the 1950's Lucy and Ethel fought a good losing battle against automation. A funny Video flashback

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    Back in the 1950's Lucy and Ethel fought losing battle against automation. I worked two summers during college at a Kraft Food plant on the Cheese packaging line and it convinced me that I never wanted to work on an assembly line regardless of the pay.
   
Lucy and Ethel fight the conveyor

    Automation is not a new thing, it has been around since the arrow was invented and put many cavemen out of work. They no longer had to surround their prey and close in. They could just wait behind a tree and shoot it as it came by. I will resist telling the old joke about how Liberals and Conservatives started for now.

    Almost everything in job is subject to replacement by automation, but I may have found a video that beats Lucy and Ethel's efforts. I will admit however that a little grease on the bearings would make the conveyor a bit quieter.

   
Two other women have no problem with the conveyor.


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