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All this sounds quite a bit like Marx's theory of alienation: "The theoretic basis of alienation within the capitalist mode of production is that the worker in
by praptak 12y ago
All this sounds quite a bit like Marx's theory of alienation:
"The theoretic basis of alienation within the capitalist mode of production is that the worker invariably loses the ability to determine his or her life and destiny, when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of himself as the director of his actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define their relationship with other people; and to own the things and use the value of the goods and services, produced with their labour."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
- ArkyBeagle 12y agoJust a quick thought but Henry Ford may have found a solution to this. It's also (possibly) been shown that Ford simply had data which showed that transaction costs from turnover made the $5 wage worth his while. Ford exhibited other bizarre managerial tics, but the world was new-and-all... Ford's hubris was total vertical integration, but that came later. Detroit is not exactly a worker's paradise today, and few people talk about it... Marx assumed Malthus, and Malthus could not have anticipated the more modern aspects of mass production and mass agriculture.
- grimtrigger 12y agoThe article makes the opposite point - that government bureaucracy (and the mal-incentives it creates) is what is killing the relationships between doctors and patients.
- esfandia 12y agoI didn't see any discrepancy: both the article and Marx are criticizing the alienating effect of the added bureaucracy and the lessening of the doctors' autonomy.