2026-09-14 11:07 UTC
There's precedent for this: indeed, it's the very origin of management consulting. The first management consultants were the Taylorists; these were con artists that charged bosses vast sums of money to stand over workers with stopwatches, timing each step of their jobs to the instant in order to produce a mandatory choreography of "the best way" to do the job:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-14 11:07
None of these "scientists" knew anything about how to do the job, and critically, they *never asked the workers* why they used an "inefficient" technique to accomplish a task. Rather, Taylorists concerned themselves with getting workers to move like precision machines, transforming the factory floor into a stage upon which workers pantomimed "efficiency" for bosses who *also* didn't know how to do the workers' jobs. 8/