About 100 years ago, women, men, and children alike worked shoulder to shoulder in factories, assembling everything from toys, to toilets, and even cars.
They were paid well, received cheap (if not free!) healthcare, got paid Christmas bonuses, got weekends and holidays off, and could retire comfortably at 58 with a union pension and a gold watch.
In some ways, they were better off than us in a modern workforce.
Now granted, some worked in horrible working conditions (like in coal mines) but if you were in a modern factory, you had a stable job.
But eventually, working with your hands shifted to working with your brain…