For workers, challenge is all too easily ducked

We face not monotony in our jobs but the temptations of endless variety

Adam Smith with cane and tricorn hat — Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images

By Tim Harford

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same . . . generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”…

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