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And if you can find a way to measure joint stress and wear through the day, we can optimize the workers to pick the heaviest parcels each can lift such that it only damages them a bit but not more over the course of a week than nights and weekends of rest can cope for, that would be great too, thanks.

And dim the warehouse lights, they can have individual torches. No sense lighting parts of the room people aren't looking at. Oh hang on, batteries - better make them hand cranked torches, then the power comes from their lunch, ha ha!

The issue isn't with instant-feedback, it's with degradation and treating humans like industrial farm animals. The question isn't "is this effective", but "is this ok?" and "can anyone come up with something less dystopian but still workable? - please?".



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