Claims / C-ZY2SPNMR64
Conjecture
Efficiency spread everywhere because it serves any purpose. Part I: Taylorism never much respected the old left-right divide or barriers between industries or political systems, and its ideas were embraced by Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and the Japanese military elite as eagerly as by the liberal democracies, if not more so. Disparate and diametrically opposed leaders found efficiency a useful proximate goal whatever their ultimate ends. A capability that serves every end selects for nothing, so its spread tells you about its portability and nothing about its direction.
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Disparate and diametrically opposed leaders found efficiency a useful proximate goal whatever their ultimate ends. Efficiency could just as easily help Western democracies rapidly increase their standard of living and material wealth as it could assist Japan, the Soviet Union, Fascist Germany and It
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