Came here to say this. The notion that bringing corporate-world bullshit to our government would be a good thing is one of the worst ideas floating around in our culture. I’m sure if corporations would be allowed, they’d introduce mumbo-jumbo like lie detectors to keep employees even further subjected to their will [1].
Corporations are top-down private tyrannies guided only by profit motive.
A democratic government should be operated VERY differently from the corporate world.
[1] Hell, they already employ complete nonsense like “personality tests” - there is not one iota of evidence to back up any of that. I’m honestly not sure which is stupider - getting your enneagram equivalent (regardless of the brand du jour ) at work, or lie detectors for loyalty.
Hell, they already employ complete nonsense like “personality tests” - there is not one iota of evidence to back up any of that.
That stuff isn’t nonsense, it’s worse: it’s a cover for discrimination against protected classes. “I didn’t reject that candidate because he was black; I rejected him because he… uh… failed this personality test I gave him. Yeah, that’s it. No racist discrimination here!”
What’s dumb is that things like Enneagram/Myers-Brigg/DISC and other such woo purport to be “only about people learning about others’ styles” and so on, LOL.
I’ve seen people put their Myers-Briggs letters on LinkedIn and on their resume. FFS.
Came here to say this. The notion that bringing corporate-world bullshit to our government would be a good thing is one of the worst ideas floating around in our culture. I’m sure if corporations would be allowed, they’d introduce mumbo-jumbo like lie detectors to keep employees even further subjected to their will [1].
Corporations are top-down private tyrannies guided only by profit motive.
A democratic government should be operated VERY differently from the corporate world.
[1] Hell, they already employ complete nonsense like “personality tests” - there is not one iota of evidence to back up any of that. I’m honestly not sure which is stupider - getting your enneagram equivalent (regardless of the brand du jour ) at work, or lie detectors for loyalty.
That stuff isn’t nonsense, it’s worse: it’s a cover for discrimination against protected classes. “I didn’t reject that candidate because he was black; I rejected him because he… uh… failed this personality test I gave him. Yeah, that’s it. No racist discrimination here!”
What’s dumb is that things like Enneagram/Myers-Brigg/DISC and other such woo purport to be “only about people learning about others’ styles” and so on, LOL.
I’ve seen people put their Myers-Briggs letters on LinkedIn and on their resume. FFS.