This take deserves so many asterisks and caveats, that it won't be recognizable coming out of the other end. This source is a fashionable, knee-jerk narrative

This take deserves so many asterisks and caveats, that it won't be recognizable coming out of the other end. This source is a fashionable, knee-jerk narrative from a heavily contested historical effort (1619 Project already discussed ad nauseum). This particular piece is basically a marketing piece from the publication that funded the project. On top of that, the piece you linked doesn't come anywhere near making the argument you attribute to it. It has some sharp rhetoric from some totally random people that draws links between US capitalism and US slavery. There is absolutely no historical assessment of the evolution of managerial techniques vis-a-vis a link to slavery.