I think the Economist delivers the best response to this so far: IN JONATHAN SWIFT’S 1726 novel, “Gulliver’s Travels”, the Yahoos are a degraded band of humano

I think the Economist delivers the best response to this so far: IN JONATHAN SWIFT’S 1726 novel, “Gulliver’s Travels”, the Yahoos are a degraded band of humanoids kept tethered in stalls by their equine captors... http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21572767-forcing-workers-come-office-symptom-yahoos-problems-not-solution http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21572767-forcing-worke... The tethered-horse metaphor (which they do not ease up on) really nails their point: empirical criticisms aside, the policy is degrading.