![]() ![]() But these things cost money - $20,000 or more a year for a manager, $100 a pop for a drug test, and so on - and the high cost of repression results in ever more pressure to hold wages down. ![]() Hence the perceived need for repressive management and intrusive measures like drug and personality testing. For reasons that have more to do with class - and often racial - prejudice than with actual experience, they tend to fear and distrust the category of people from which they recruit their workers. Corporate decision makers, and even some two-bit entrepreneurs like my boss at The Maids, occupy an economic position miles above that of the underpaid people whose labor they depend on. “There seems to be a vicious cycle at work here, making ours not just an economy but a culture of extreme inequality. ![]()
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