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The blog 'Breaking Bread' is for a civil general discussion, like you might have at the dinner table with guests. The posts 'Economics Without the B.S.' are intended for a general audience that wouldn't have to know the difference between a Phillips Curve, a Laffer Curve, or a Cole Hamels Curve. Vic Volpe was formally educated at Penn State and the University of Scranton, with major studies in History, Economics and Finance, and Business; and, is self-educated since by way of books and on-line university courses. His practical education came from fifty years of work experience in the blue-collar trades as well as a white-collar professional career -- a white-collar professional career in production and R&D. In his professional career and as a long-haul trucker, he has traveled throughout the lower forty-eight. From his professional career alone he has visited many manufacturing plants in the United States, Europe and China. He has lived in major metropolitan areas and very small towns in various parts of the United States. He served three years with the U.S. Army as an enlisted man, much of that time in Germany.

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Algorithms of Oppression?

 

Algorithms of Oppression?


Economics Without The B.S.**: 

[**  Double entendre intended.]


You live long enough and this stuff gets recycled to come back at you in new fangled ways.

Bezosism, an off-shoot/American adaptation of the Toyota Kanban System that became popular in America in the 1980s, making rate in mind-numbing work according to algorithms [of oppression].


Wall Street Journal article -- 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-way-amazon-uses-tech-to-squeeze-performance-out-of-workers-deserves-its-own-name-bezosism-11631332821?st=64p34g630brmxni&reflink=desktopwebshare_facebook&fbclid=IwAR0L3mEBUL4uO9PHTa5uUpfkjg5p9VEFjpcy8Xuf3ibVChRwrkFS_skDeP8




TOYOTA Kanban Production System



From the 1980s, in America. This was Japanese adaptations of the influence of Edwards Demming and Joseph Juran on Japanese manufacturing and management after the destruction from WWII.


Taguchi Methods --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taguchi_methods


Edwards Demming --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming?fbclid=IwAR0Z1v0Pzw-rqRfDVprTO2vj20O095V6fes-TrcVqAFN-mqjMRR_iscV1MU


Joseph Juran --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Juran?fbclid=IwAR1WwWY2ItLrwFTxbFxmTCkBqzSv6NDC1nqmBUV_UBkAgmsXQRtgSDJcEk8


Peter Drucker, management guru, was another who advised Japanese on management style. I wonder what he would think of "Bezosism"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker



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