Rolando, this is excellent! What really, really excites me is your comparison between Adam Smith and Karl Marx. I side with Marx in this case. Here is why.
Marx described "alienation," the separation of worker from identification with service, product and how toxic it is to human health! I am not a Communist; this does not discredit Marx as a pioneer sociologist of the Industrial Age and its relentless assembly line lobotomies to stakeholders.
Yes, with Adam Smith, I believe in creative flexibility for resources. Okay, we need room to change. However, we also need to treat people with more dignity than throwaway ciphers. This is a core challenge today still; you "hit the nail on the head" here good and hard by restating it.
I was a student at the University of Dublin, Ireland, when I first encountered Marx's concept of "alienation." Because of the anti-Communist rhetoric of the times I at first hesitated to give it credence; I realized recognizing alienation in the workplace does not automatically require a dictatorship to fix it.
Enter management specialists like Peter F. Drucker and labor unions. Thank you for this exciting discussion! Dr. Rux
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