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From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
>
> The ultimate problem with Taylorism is that so-called
scientific
> management and rationalized production doesn't work. You
simply can
> not pre-plan a production process anymore than you can
completely
> pre-engineer a device without building one and testing it.
And it gets
> worse. You can not pre-design a business around a
pre-designed
> production system for a pre-designed product---unless of
course the
> 'business', `production' and `product' are not real. Ipso
facto, the
> imaginary product of imaginary production and imaginary
profits---the
> dot.com, Enron, WorlCom, wonders of the twenty-first
century....
>
> Chuck Grimes
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The history of the Boeing corporation does not comport with any of the assertions given above. That's just one company.....
It's way more complex than what you suggest. Yes workers need to be very guarded with their intellectual property under wage labor; the expropriation has been going at least since Adam Smith noted it in his "Lectures on Jurisprudence."
How to change it......................?
Ian