bsmall2Mar 4, 2025
> .. the miracle.. market.. Reagan? .. a standard line..[but] Reagan was the most protectionist president in post-war U.S. history.. he.. doubled protective barriers, more than all post-war presidents combined.. a reason..[in] the late 1970s there was a great deal of concern in the business world that U.S. companies could not compete with superior Japanese manufacturers. U.S. managers hadn’t understood the new techniques... developed in Japan.
https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/kicking-away-the-ladder-part-1-by-noam-chomsky/
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> A century earlier the biggest business operation in the United States was railroads...beyond the competence of private industries and the Pentagon took it over.. the U.S. Army took it over...happened before and it happened again with Reagan who called on #ThePentagon to design.. “the factory of the future,” a #ModernFactory. This would teach backward U.S. corporate managers how to use computers, on time production, and all of the techniques that the Japanese had invented...
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> .. the Pentagon.. could design the factory of the future so.. it empowers managers and de-skills workers.. well studied. #DavidNoble.. was on the faculty of MIT, did major work.. particularly with regard to automation.. under military auspices, automation was designed to insure that decisions were taken away from skilled mechanics and put in the hands of.. managers to de-skill the workforce and empower management. There was no reason.. efficiency.. it sometimes harmed profit.
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