Word: taylorism
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...wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge, getting to the dead center of all human stories, "is an evil which has its ground or origin in the agent, and not in the compulsion of circumstances...
...murderers wanted to leave no witnesses. Their motive evidently was robbery. They got $2,300. One of the workers survived. Police arrested two men, named Taylor and Godineaux, and charged them with the executions...
...World Socialist Web Site, I learn that Taylor and Godineaux were also acting under the "compulsion of circumstances." Taylor "was nearing 40, and still stuck with low-paying fast-food jobs. His increasing demoralization could not have been unrelated to the dead end he found himself in, while from every radio, television and newspaper there issued declarations that everyone had never had it so good...
...Besides, Taylor and Godineaux were not "poor" by any standard. And mass murder is not justified by seeing things you want on television and not being able to afford them...
...Microsoft in adopting them. "What it all boils down to is who is in the room fighting for you," says an Enron worker who was cut from the herd. "I didn't have people there to talk for me, and I felt like I got screwed." Counters Craig Taylor, a manager in Enron's commodity-trading department: "You have to know where you stand, and I believe the system does an excellent job of doing that...