The Efficiency of Nazi Era, Industrial Revolution and Current Business Best Practices: Erasing Human Dignity
"Efficiency." That's the word dominating the films depicting the Nazi era in Germany. Free streaming platform Tubi is hosting those movies, including the 2021 "The Auschwitz Report."
Efficiency also dominated the Industrial Revolution.
Human dignity was erased.
That was how the Nazi controlled prisoners in the camps. In his novels, Charles Dickens showcased that inhumanity to man as machines in factories replaced craftspeople laboring in their cottages.
Currently, despite its shameful uses in earlier centuries, the concept of efficiency is embedded in best practices for business.
It was in 2023 that Meta launched "The Year of Efficiency." But the massive layoffs kicked in a year earlier. By the end of 2023, 21,000 humans lost their jobs. Perhaps those were the lower-value humans Standard Chartered Bill Winters will also lay off in the next few years. Meanwhile, this week Meta cut another 8,000 humans.
With human dignity erased the rest of the human being remaining is represented in the Nine of Wands in the tarot.
Confidence is gone. It's replaced by confusion. Instead of direction, there is a sense of being lost. And no help visible.
Yet, the unemployed and underemployed on Reddit, Fishbowl, Blind and Glassdoor who sound lost are told they're not networking enough. Not formatting resumes for AI screeners. Not showcasing problem-solving on interviews. During the late 1960s we humanist Boomers labeled that "blaming the victim." Well these victims of efficiency can no longer help themselves. And policies aren't in-place to help them.
Dickens, who himself lost his dignity laboring in a factory as a mere boy, advocated the "milk of human kindness." At least we can do that. We can immerse the victims of efficiency in the milk of human kindness. They may emerge to find their way back to earning a living. Yes, softly deliver the message: It's not your fault.
Path to earning a good
living, finding your tribe and not going insane is doable.
Let’s start the journey
together with a Tarot reading.
One free question.
Jane Genova, 3rd
Generation Psychic 203-468-8579, jangenova374@gmail.com

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