Perhaps an imperial history explains it? The early industrialists looked around for a social model for the "factory" and the people gathered there in, and the c

Perhaps an imperial history explains it? The early industrialists looked around for a social model for the "factory" and the people gathered there in, and the closest thing they found was the military and the warrior classes. The industrialists often refer to themselves a "moguls" and their large businesses as "empires"; you can see how their little ego might take on a whip and shape people in the imperial master/server image. You never see the same thing in ancient trades; agriculture, education, restaurants, etc. specially in China. Family or community owned industries. It's businesses operated by "forward looking" management that's learning and applying this robo-militaristic attitude. Henry Ford did the same thing, the man pretty much removed workers from society and built walled cities in the jungle. Though I think Henry the Great might be shooting for a "benovelant dictator" sort of title.