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user-inactivated · 4049 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Messy Link Between Slaveowners and Modern Management
Nothing I read in that article indicates that managers got their tactics from the slave owners. It could be that managers came up with these tactics based on the free market just as much as the slave owners did (both had the same pressure of increasing profits), so it was convergent evolution, not that the managers inherited ideas from the slave owners. Incentivizing workers isn't a completely nonobvious idea anyway; it isn't as if issuing incentives to workers has to mean that the managers got their ideas from slave owners.