It seems like with every generation the human work ethic gets poorer and poorer. I supervised a bunch of millennials in a manufacturing environment just before I retired. I have never even heard mules whine like that! They spent more time going to the bathroom than working and if you called them out on anything they thought you were mistreating them and ran to the front office to complain about the supervisor. I finally quit, I didn't need the money I just did it to stay busy at the time. There were a few here and there that showed up early and stayed late, that worked hard through their shift but they were few.

Yeah, this workforce could easily be replaced with a more productive machine force as long as humans continue to handle the thinking part for them.