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That's the point. The "highly-managerial" firm is the present and the future, and in that kind of firm, the capitalist/socialist bourgeois/prole framework is a
by jstewartmobile 7y ago
That's the point. The "highly-managerial" firm is the present and the future, and in that kind of firm, the capitalist/socialist bourgeois/prole framework is an inaccurate model.
They're like mini command-economies, each with its own commissars, competing with other mini command-economies, subcontracting some parts of their activity to tiny "bourgeois capitalist" enterprises, and others to modern-day slave plantations.
I think Ted Chiang called them the original paperclip-optimizers.