This sounds a lot like the Marxist theory of alienation [0] in practice. Because do-ers can't decide what they do, they get alienated from their work product a

This sounds a lot like the Marxist theory of alienation [0] in practice. Because do-ers can't decide what they do, they get alienated from their work product and get apathetic. The fact that it is happening during a capitalist crisis only adds strength to the theory. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation