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Was it the specialization of labor, or the harnessing of vasts quantities of stored energy in fossil fuels? I’d wager on the latter.
Agriculture brought 2 or 3 orders of magnitude in population growth. Industrialization of fossil fuels brought about 1.
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Sounds like there are hierarchies in the garbagemen business. I recall reading an article a few years back about garbagemen, the ones who ride on the back of the trucks, they do back-breaking work, and it's definitely a young man's gig.
I've admittedly never seen our garbage trucks in operation here in my Dallas suburb, but for over a decade in Louisiana, our garbage trucks were a 1 man crew who ran a robotic arm.