Early professional exposure to organized labor issues influenced my #SystemsThinking-approach in corporate structures.
In the Gilded Age 2.0, the instinct is to rely on the Victorian Era playbook of the Industrial Revolution.
The abstraction of humans to the factory machines is what gave rise to abuse, harms, and the conditions which formed unions.
Now, in the Age of the #SyntheticMachine similar dynamics are playing out.
History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
“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.