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    276 hours ago

    All labour is skilled labour. If you have to be trained how to do something it’s a skill.

    You think packing boxes is just putting things in boxes but I’m sure there is more to it, particularly when working for dystopian Amazon where they’re very strict with KPIs.

    People called it unskilled labour as a means to pay people less.

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      44 hours ago

      Given the size of the boxes my Amazon stuff comes in you’d have to be extremely challenged not to be able to get that stuff in there. They’re not exactly solving the Knapsack Packing Problem multiple times a day.

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        My understanding is some algorithm decides what size box to use for an order, the packer packs that box.

        The skill comes from the repetition of doing the task to become efficient enough not to be taken out back and put down by Bezos.