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So this is the perfect moment to describe management by stress. This is sort of getting to the crux of this story.

It says, it's an effective labor management like literally

management by stress that's in quotes it's an effective labor management strategy

that convinces workers to take the onus on themselves to complete tasks in a way that

elicits rewards not reprimands. The result is greater compliance and a faster pace propelled by workers own fear of dropping the ball.

That's perfect.

To design a system that convinces, like you don't have to beat the prisoners if you can convince them that they have to beat themselves.

It's some like evil genius level corporate management work

that has gone into creating these systems.

And the last note I have here just to make sure we tie it back to the previous

episode all the more. The journalists who went and worked at the fast food briefly

had a little text exchange with one of their coworkers and said,

today was crazy. I feel like I survived a horror movie, she says. It's only Wednesday.

Her week had lasted 65 hours and the next is likely to be just as long.

And then quoting another text, it's only heat. The people come out when it's hot, ants which is a little dehumanizing but I'll give them a pass because they're fast food workers and you gotta you got to survive somehow there you know they're not dehumanizing people from a position of power so they're not not about to you know

inflict a genocide on anybody but I was like wow see we were talking last time about how death from heat is not the only problem with excessive

heat. It also makes people go to fast food restaurants more and inflict more pain on fast food

restaurant workers. It's like the cycle of climate

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