BEAN COUNTERS
Back when Henry Ford was figuring out the assembly-line process, and spreading fascist propaganda, there was a work theory called Taylorism. It's proponent was Frederick Winslow Taylor. It taught management how to break up factory jobs into small, easy-to-manage, units. Workers preferred to think of it as monotony. Later, as I took my place in the work-a-day world, they were known as efficiency experts, or "bean-counters". The corporate world is like that. I make a distinction between the corporate world and capitalists. Capitalism is your local pizza parlor. Corporatism is the international food conglomerate targeting the local pizz parlor to cut part of their business away so that Dominoes can make their P&L look good. I suppose there is something remarkable about capitalists hiring an extra employee who is not producing product. But underlying this workplace annoyance is the reality that the excess profits earned by the bean counter makes the P&L look good, wh...