Cars and Factory Work (was Cars and Victorians)

[Brad De Long]

Re:
>
>I would also like to call attention to the fact that driving car is very
>much like factory work in one sense: it forces drivers to pay _constant
>low-grade attention_ to their machines and surroundings so as not to cause
>accidents. This need to pay constant low-grade attention is very mentally
>stressful and yet does not require meaningful intellectual engagement. The
>same need is imposed upon workers inside factories, so they have to put up
>with the same kind of stress before, during, and after work hours.
>
>Yoshie

A very nice way of formulating it...

Brad DeLong