Describing the meticulously oppressive design of the Amazon workplace, she refers to Frederick Winslow Taylor, the mechanical engineer who, in the early twentieth century, spurred the mania for breaking down industrial tasks into minutely timed segments: “My scanner gun is [Taylor’s] vision incarnate—my own personal stopwatch and pitiless robo-manager rolled into one….Would Taylor be horrified that his fears about the abuse of his ideas had come true? Or would he jizz in his pants?”
