#Taylorism and other efficiency cults ended up scripting the motions of workers to the fingertips, and workers were and are subject to increasing surveillance and discipline from bosses if they deviate. Take too many pee breaks at the Amazon warehouse and you will be marked down for "time off-task."

Steampunk is a dream of craft production at factory scale: in steampunk, the worker is a solitary genius who can produce high-tech finished goods in their own laboratory. 

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