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Jiang says we could not build the pyramids today because modern work lacks the religious devotion, shared vision, care, and purpose that organized ancient labor.
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Jiang says we could not build the pyramids today because modern work lacks the religious devotion, shared vision, care, and purpose that organized ancient labor.
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Using Swedish higher education and other charts, Jiang argues that teachers and secretaries do more real work for less pay while managers become more numerous and better paid.
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He argues that the same bureaucratic pattern appears beyond universities: Canada, US government, regulation, and the military all show management growth over real work.
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"people like all cultures the pharaoh wanted what's best for his people okay so the pharaoh would in his lifetime undertake a lot of..."
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"...image today we focus on something called top -down process -oriented management okay the idea here is rather than work together you just go..."
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"know like to produce a great piece of art you stay and you work really hard at it okay but in school what do..."
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"lack that vision the last thing this is most important is you have vision when you have religious purpose every you do is careful..."
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"teaching has gone down the blue okay but look at this the red is administration so over the past from 1980 to today over..."
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"is the number of teachers teaching more and more students okay teachers are teaching more and more students but administrators are managing less and..."
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"...that do real work i.t uh hr they're going down but management is going up all right so the people who do actually no..."
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"...you can see the growth in the government is basically in management okay people who will work no it's pretty flat but look at..."
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"okay they're going way up and it's a pretty steady increase all right so how do we know the government doesn't really do anything..."
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"...right now so you see what's happening is an increase in management because the ratio of manager officer to soldier is going down okay..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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