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[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

scifi dystopia future where a race of gnomes are created to sit inside things and play mechanical turk

[โ€“] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I watched this sketch comedy show in Iceland as a kid, where every week they had a section called "the men behind the curtains". It was just people hidden away inside ATMs, vending machines etc. pretending it was a machine doing the work.