Corporate world transformation ambition
New definition in team composition
Once human agents now robot cognition
Enter the post-human workforce transition
Efficiency skyrockets
Low people, high profits
Delivery, optimized
Retailers, digitized
Dialogue, personalized
Despite hefty savings in stress leave and tissues
The droid revolution is riddled with issues
Compassionless robots corrode
Human relations are slowed
People speak less
Smile less
Trust less…
Science boffins add humanoid humour
and vulnerability augments compatibility
within hybrid social systems
Sentiment sub-routines
avoid awkwardness and
tame transitions
Androids are made more like humans
People-only is ended
Social systems are blended
Human feelings transcended
Workforce entry amended
Now proficient production
is intermittently interrupted
by androids leaking feelings
Patched up too many times
Spare parts are sparse
Units are on their non-figurative
last legs, arms, and heads
Management resists re-investment in the
replaceable, robotic working class
Sad androids stand stranded,
disbanded, drab-handed,
slam-hanged and harangued,
despoiled and destroyed…
To delegate feelings to mechanoid beings
Is fast guaranteeing the absence of meaning
To swap warm emotion for chilly devotion
brings human implosion and moral erosion
Closed system, no weak points
All software, no souls
Is almost as useless as sieves with no holes
Or icing, no cake
For every mistake
ends with a correction
through error detection
Inspection, reflection
And causal connection
That causes protection
and growing conviction
that this is a fiction,
which feeds a new faction
for human affection…
The commerce machine is for people, however,
One person alone can be wrong, but together
The networks of pet-quirks and step-shirks and blunders
Make slipping and lapsing and rending asunder
No wonder the funders are foible-free hunters
To engineer-out human error
The fewer the humans the better
But work is a meaningful human endeavour
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