[lbo-talk] barbaric

[Miles Jackson]

joanna wrote:
> Far from helping to promote productivity or creativity, the work of 
> management is to throttle both as much as possible. Throttling 
> creativity is always the rule. As for productivity -- while they are 
> always interested in making workers work harder; they are seldom 
> interested in making them more efficient, at least in my neck of the 
> woods: hi tech.
>
>   
I'm up here in the ivory tower, so perhaps this is a silly question: if 
management constantly throttles both productivity and creativity, how do 
corps produce new products and generate profits?  Doesn't even a 
capitalist economy demand innovation?  For instance, if creativity in 
research and devel is stifled in one pharma and encouraged in another, 
wouldn't the creativity-stifled pharma miss out on the profits generated 
by new patented drugs?

Also, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between productivity and 
efficiency.  Isn't increasing efficiency just producing  more goods and 
services  per worker?

Miles