One reason there are so many bullshit jobs today is because our jobs were designed, scientifically, to make you and all your coworkers as replaceable as possible.
Taylorism is part of the reason you hate your job. “Scientific Management” was a way to intentionally crush labor and make every worker easily replaceable
“human work will increasingly rely on #creativity—which is not a skill #ScientificManagement was designed to encourage.”
- Adam Job and Martin Reeves
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/geoffreycolon_business-transformation-in-fact-most-change-activity-7242651907838636033-G9bo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
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From a #SystemsThinking perspective, I am delayed in adding #FrederickTaylor & #ScientificManagement to my list of people against whom I hold deep, unyielding grudges which cross the space-time continuum.
The others are #Cyril and #Athanasius.
Call them #QuantumGrudges.
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Early management theory stemmed from studies of factory assembly line efficiency.
#ScientificManagement #Taylorism https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesrichardson/p/job-satisfaction-peaked-with-the?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios
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Ye olde #scientificmanagement
updated formula; #stopwatch (replaced by #algorithm) + #coercion (by #onesidedcontracts ) - minus #unions
#surveillancecapitalism tyranny in the workplace by the monarchs of industry aka #bossWare
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/creepy-rise-bossware
My trigger: people who vocally advocate for “automation” and also have no idea who was Frederick Taylor.
You don’t even know what you don’t even know, my Nietzschean brother in Christ, incapable of grokking oxymorons.
“Workers in the world according to scientific management could be no different to cogs in a machine.”
This sublimation of humanity to the machine during the #IndustrialRevolution has refactored itself in the context of the #SyntheticMachine in the Second #GildedAge.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02746-8
It’s just too sad to see institutionalized scientists accusing governments for their hypocritical behavior. They are struggling themselves not to drift into the #paraAcademic zone and then disappear from scientific acknowledgment. As late sequelae of #scientificManagement introduced into the ivory towers.
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