Somewhere in the ocean right now, a small, aging fleet of specialized ships is repairing the cables that carry 99% of the world's international internet traffic. Somewhere else, a content moderator is watching the worst material the internet produces, so you never have to see it. Their success is defined by invisibility ? the job is done right exactly when nobody notices it happened at all.

Load-Bearing is a book about that category of labor: essential, skilled, and structurally invisible by design, not by accident.

Inside:

• Why fewer people can repair the internet's physical backbone today than could repair transoceanic telegraph cables in 1904
• The real psychological cost paid by the people who keep the internet's worst content off your screen
• The ancient, unbroken line connecting a Roman food taster to a modern quality-control inspector

From Flynn Mercer, author of The Second Read, The Wrong Name, and Too Good to Check.