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> This ethic of ceaseless work and ceaseless renunciation of the fruits of one’s toil provided both the economic and the moral foundations for modern capitalism

• dragontamer 7y ago
  I'm sure the US was more concerned about communism in 1983 than it is today. ---- There are some gems in this long-form rant. For example: > Another important meaning of team play is putting in long hours at the office. This requires a certain amount of sheer physical energy, even though a great deal of this time is spent not in actual work but in social rituals—like reading and discussing newspaper articles, taking coffee breaks, or having informal conversations. These rituals, readily observable in every corporation that I studied, forge the social bonds that make real managerial work—that is, group work of various sorts—possible. One must participate in the rituals to be considered effective in the work. This very much appropriately states my experience of the modern workplace environment.
  • foobarian 7y ago
    As a network guy this reminds me of how a lot of networking equipment (and also distributed system clusters) operate - you have this constant background overhead of chatting and gossiping and keeping in sync with your peer nodes, all so that when the actual work needs to be done you are on the same page. If you are not in that network, you can not get any of that work accomplished.