“So what do you do for a living, Fred?” “Well I used to touch packages.” “I don’t understand…” “The packages would come in, and a silo of them would be fed onto a conveyer belt. As they went by, I touched each one.” “I’m not following here.” “Each bag needed to be touched and I touched each one.” “Okay but why?” “Well the labels need to be face down and I touched them and made them all face down. It was a great gig until my job was eliminated.” “Oh no, did they put another camera looking down from above so that no one needed to touch the package?” “No they spent millions of dollars, or 20 years of my salary to train a robot over months to touch the packages as good as me.” “Why not just add another camera?” “Because that’s not enough to trick investors into buying really inconvenient and expensive automation tools.”