Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The snail on the slope (№ 384208)

Look, Pepper, he thought, maybe all this carousel to exist, to make it work? In fact, a good mechanic fixes the car for two hours. And then? And the remaining twenty two hours? And if the same machines are experienced workers that machines do not spoil? The very same as always: good mechanics translate into cooks and cooks into mechanics. It's not something that twenty-two hours twenty-two years can be filled. No, there is some logic. All work, doing their human duty, not that monkey any... and more specialty gain... not really any logic in this mess is a solid, not logic.