The Fork in the Road

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-10-11

Twenty-six essays ago this argument began at a factory in Fremont, California, where American workers GM had written off as lazy and ungovernable matched Japanese quality within months once Toyota treated them as intelligent partners in production. Same people. Different system. Opposite result. Everything since has been evidence for one claim: the problem was never that American workers lack capability. The problem is that we built a machine that suppresses their intelligence and extracts the value they create in spite of it. Thirteen essays established the suppression. Thirteen more established the extraction. Friedman...